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
Warrior Queens Who Challenged Rome
11 min
2
Vintage News: Pentagon Papers
9 min
3
Firebombing of Dresden
11 min
4
Conversations: Laurence Jurdem
29 min
5
Blood on the Senate Floor
11 min
6
U.S. Invades Canada - Twice!
12 min
7
Remembering John Q. Adams
12 min
8
The Legend of King Arthur
11 min
9
U.S. and Greenland: A History
10 min
10
Mormon Army of Nauvoo
11 min
11
Conversations: Jonathan Eig
12 min
12
Stealing the Panama Canal
13 min
13
Romulus and Remus of Rome
10 min
14
Kosovo Student Poisoning Incident
12 min
15
FBI's Long Manhunt for Fugitive Webb
11 min
16
Trivia: Accidental Inventions
4 min
17
Father of the Doughnut Hole
11 min
18
Rasputin's Autopsy Secrets
9 min
19
Conversations: Norman Davies
27 min
20
Killing Dillinger
11 min
21
The $36 Million Dollar Scam
10 min
22
Pope's Line Across the World
9 min
23
The Fall of Boss Tweed
9 min
24
Trivia: Candy
4 min
25
Brazilian Expeditionary Force of WWII
12 min