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History Shorts Network

Dive into the past with award-winning historian Peter Zablocki in this captivating daily podcast! Uncover hidden stories you never knew existed. And don't miss Friday Conversations where Peter teams up with top experts for riveting, in-depth discussions that bring history to life.

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981 episodes

  1. The Statue of Liberty Crowdfunding Hustle 13:01
  2. The Unsinkable Violet Jessop 14:17
  3. How to Turn History into Emotion: The Apollo Story, with John Monsky 22:10
  4. The Battle of Grunwald 12:40
  5. When Spain was the Richest Empire in Europe. 12:23
  6. President Grant's Betrayal, w/ John Reeves 28:38
  7. Cleopatra's Forgotten Daughter 12:05
  8. WWII Operation Caesar 11:30
  9. The Julius Caesar Health Debate 13:27
  10. Incident on Hill 192 12:07
  11. The House of Medici 12:59
  12. Athens vs. Sparta: The Original Superpower Rivalry 11:51
  13. Who Was the Real William Howard Taft? w/ Walter Stahr 34:10
  14. When FDR Wanted Hoover to be President 14:09
  15. How Baghdad Saved Ancient Greek Philosophy 12:29
  16. The Third Tier: Theaters & Prostitutes 13:12
  17. The Home Remedies that Killed 15:07
  18. The Most Expensive American War is... 14:02
  19. Eight Days that Ended the Gilded Age 13:30
  20. Poland: What Does it Take For a Nation to Survive, w/ Norman Davies 41:51
  21. The Search for the Last Rebel Yell 13:43
  22. From Burnsides to Sideburns 12:37
  23. Thucydides Invents History 12:25
  24. Why did Hitler Declare War on America? 13:26
  25. The Dreyfus Affair 13:40
  26. The Nixon v. Khrushchev Kitchen Debate 13:53
  27. The Rise of American Air Power in WWII, w/ A.J. Baime 30:33
  28. The Lost Romanov Fortune 15:20
  29. Nellie Bly Around the World 11:14
  30. Debunking the 1637 Tulip Mania 15:04
  31. The Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan 14:36
  32. Alexander the Great's Road to Tyre 15:30
  33. J. Colter - America's First Mountain Man 14:45
  34. Reassessing the Hindenburg Disaster, w/ Catherine Katz 34:25
  35. Warsaw 1920 - The Battle that Saved Europe 16:56
  36. The Worst Military Decision in Ancient History 13:07
  37. The Rise of Catherine the Great 13:15
  38. South Sea Company - The Original Economic Bubble 15:41
  39. Two Days in Berlin 1961 - Cold War (Almost) Turns Hot 17:10
  40. Seven Days in Korea - To Fight or Not to Fight? 16:36
  41. Morris - The Forsaken Founder w/ Scott Greenberger 29:52
  42. Eight Days in Manila - When the U.S. Became an Empire 16:36
  43. Four Days in April - The Spark of the Civil War 12:20
  44. Six Days in March - The End of the Roman Republic 15:57
  45. Eight Days in August - The Collapse of Japan 16:34
  46. The Osage Reign of Terror 15:15
  47. The 1927 Bath School Disaster 14:33
  48. Inside the National WWI Museum, w/ Christopher Warren 35:09
  49. Battle of Blair Mt. and the Origins of 'Redneck' 15:49
  50. Ishi Walks Out of the Foothills 11:10