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.

History
126
Paul Revere (Where are they now?)
11 min
127
Conversations: David Sears
22 min
128
Japan's Last Soldier
8 min
129
Bat Bombs
8 min
130
Cherry Blossoms at Night
7 min
131
Killing Tojo
7 min
132
Conversations: Clare Mulley
15 min
133
BONUS: Interview with a D-Day Veteran
32 min
134
Double Life of Josephine Baker
8 min
135
Nazi Prisoner on the Run
8 min
136
The White Rose Movement
7 min
137
The Little Truck that Could
9 min
138
Conversations: H.W. Brands
10 min
139
Wall Street Under Attack!
6 min
140
Nero's Party House
7 min
141
The Father of History
7 min
142
The Hammurabi Way
7 min
143
Conversations: Edward J. Larson
15 min
144
Aliens Over Texas
8 min
145
Nazi Bureaucracy
7 min
146
Virginia Breaks Up With Virginia
7 min
147
Edgar Allan Poe's Bad Reputation
7 min
148
Conversations: Rick Beyer
19 min
149
Alexander's Missing Body
8 min
150
Becoming Sherlock Holmes
7 min