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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Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts
10 min
102
Alexander Graham Bell (Where are they now?)
11 min
103
Conversations: Andrew Pettegree
13 min
104
Do We have Freedom of Speech?
8 min
105
Tower of London Kills Again
7 min
106
History's Deadliest King
8 min
107
William's Disastrous Funeral
6 min
108
Jesse Owens (Where are they now?)
10 min
109
Conversations: Kate Andersen Brower
11 min
110
Presidential Sex Scandals
9 min
111
Hollywood's 1924 Murder Mystery
8 min
112
Got Milk?
8 min
113
Conversations: Martin Dugard
15 min
114
Christopher Columbus (Where are they now?)
10 min
115
Conversations: Harold Holzer
27 min
116
Booth Saves a Lincoln
8 min
117
Bounty Jumpers
7 min
118
Escaping the Confederacy
8 min
119
Bad Day for a Picnic
7 min
120
Wright Brothers (Where are they now?)
10 min
121
Conversations: Matt Seelinger
13 min
122
Annie Oakley Shoots the Kaiser?
8 min
123
WWI German Internment
7 min
124
The Black Chamber
9 min
125
Zeppelins Over London
8 min