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
176
Titanic by the Numbers
8 min
177
Sex and Corn Flakes
8 min
178
Sheep Wars
8 min
179
Four Diaries of Anne Frank
7 min
180
Genghis Khan (Where are they now?)
9 min
181
Conversations: Brady Carlson
20 min
182
Grant and Twain
8 min
183
Mayan Portal to the Underworld
7 min
184
1968 Democratic National Convention
9 min
185
Orphans Preferred
7 min
186
The Story of Pocahontas (Where are they now?)
10 min
187
Conversations: James C. Nelson
16 min
188
The Ghost Ship
8 min
189
FDR's Close Call
8 min
190
Shadow Amendment
8 min
191
Lenin Has Second Thoughts
9 min
192
Failed Presidential Assassination Attempts
10 min
193
Alexander Graham Bell (Where are they now?)
11 min
194
Conversations: Andrew Pettegree
13 min
195
Do We have Freedom of Speech?
8 min
196
Tower of London Kills Again
7 min
197
History's Deadliest King
8 min
198
William's Disastrous Funeral
6 min
199
Jesse Owens (Where are they now?)
10 min
200
Conversations: Kate Andersen Brower
11 min