History Shorts
Each day, award-winning historian and author Peter Zablocki shares his research into the little-known and hidden-in-plain-sight historical curiosities you probably never heard of. All in the little time you probably do not have.
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The Fall of Ferdinand Magellan
11 min
102
BONUS Deep Dive: The Death of General Sikorski
49 min
103
Just the Facts: Military History
4 min
104
Landmarks: Taj Mahal
10 min
105
Conversations: Ben Macintyre
24 min
106
Battle of the Overpass
10 min
107
Kidnapping the Pope
10 min
108
Killing J.P. Morgan
12 min
109
Marathon to Athens
11 min
110
Trivia: Ancient Landmarks
4 min
111
Remastered: Sending Nazi POWs to College
10 min
112
Conquerors: Napoleon
10 min
113
Conversations: Dr. Cathy Gorn
20 min
114
History of the Potato
9 min
115
King Kong Breaks the Box Office
11 min
116
Fort Dearborn Massacre
11 min
117
Machiavelli's The Prince
11 min
118
VINTAGE NEWS: Al Capone 1926
7 min
119
Conquerors: Attila the Hun
11 min
120
Conversations: Anthony Tucker Jones
18 min
121
Ivan's Bloodless Faceoff
10 min
122
Chrysler vs. the Empire
10 min
123
Nixon's Silent Majority
11 min
124
I am an American Day
9 min
125
JUST THE FACTS: Alcohol
4 min