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.
1
U.S. Invades Canada - Twice!
12 min
2
Remembering John Q. Adams
12 min
3
The Legend of King Arthur
11 min
4
U.S. and Greenland: A History
10 min
5
Mormon Army of Nauvoo
11 min
6
Conversations: Jonathan Eig
12 min
7
Stealing the Panama Canal
13 min
8
Romulus and Remus of Rome
10 min
9
Kosovo Student Poisoning Incident
12 min
10
FBI's Long Manhunt for Fugitive Webb
11 min
11
Trivia: Accidental Inventions
4 min
12
Father of the Doughnut Hole
11 min
13
Rasputin's Autopsy Secrets
9 min
14
Conversations: Norman Davies
27 min
15
Killing Dillinger
11 min
16
The $36 Million Dollar Scam
10 min
17
Pope's Line Across the World
9 min
18
The Fall of Boss Tweed
9 min
19
Trivia: Candy
4 min
20
Brazilian Expeditionary Force of WWII
12 min
21
Landmarks: Washington Monument
9 min
22
Conversations: Catherine Fletcher
16 min
23
A City Built on Bones
10 min
24
Charlie Brown Christmas
10 min
25
Killing Spartacus
11 min