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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Who Wrote the Bible?
7 min
152
Conversations: Ray Raphael
21 min
153
A King's Deadly Dose
7 min
154
Medal of Honor: The Toughest Thing He’s Ever Do...
Through numerous wounds and excruciating pain, SP5 Sasser continuously administered aid for 20 hours as his company was attacked in Vietnam.
5 min
155
No Civil War; No Coca Cola?
7 min
156
Stalin Needs a Doctor
7 min
157
Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!
7 min
158
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day
7 min
159
Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine
7 min
160
Conversations: Col. Jack H. Jacobs
14 min
161
The Lady Who Said "No" to War
7 min
162
King Tut's Curse
6 min
163
We Didn't Start The Fire: Elvis (Part 1)
43 min
164
Elvis' Last Moments
7 min
165
Conversations: Roger Moorhouse
27 min
166
Boxing Gangsters vs. American Nazis
8 min
167
Killing Socrates
7 min
168
Cod Wars
7 min
169
The Search for Molly Pitcher
7 min
170
Sgt. York's Army of One
7 min
171
Who was Jim Crow?
7 min
172
Catherine's Doomed Husband
7 min
173
Thou Shall Not Kill Cats
7 min
174
Conversations: James Bradley
20 min
175
Napoleon's Missing Hand
6 min