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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War has never been fought by humans alone. Throughout history, animals have played vital roles in combat, serving as messengers, transporters, scouts, protectors, and even symbols of resilience. Among the most famous of these wartime animals was Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd who went from war orphan to Hollywood star. But he was far from the only dog to leave a lasting mark on military history.
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The quest for the historical Jesus is an ongoing scholarly pursuit, one that grapples with textual evidence, contradictions, and theological interpretations. From the Roman and Jewish chroniclers of the early centuries to modern scholarly inquiries, the pursuit of the historical Jesus continues to uncover layers of religious tradition, historical facts, and myths intertwined.
In 1900, a group of Greek divers looking for sponges near Antikythera, off the coast of Greece, discovered an incredible object - a bronze statue - one that continues to baffle archaeologists and historians alike to this very day.
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TODAY IN CONTEXT: So, who was the best, the worst, and the ugliest, Pope in history? I am glad you did not ask...
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Join Peter as he speaks with Greg Waters, the Curator of the newest national museum, the National Medal of Honor Museum.
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Few figures in Mexican history are as legendary, controversial, and enigmatic as Pancho Villa. He was a bandit, a revolutionary, a general, and a folk hero remembered for his role in the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) and his daring cross-border raid on the United States. Villa’s life was filled with violence, ambition, and contradictions; at times, a Robin Hood-like figure, at others, a brutal warlord.
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On June 23, 1985, the deadliest act of terrorism in Canadian history unfolded in the skies off the coast of Ireland, when Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747 en route from Toronto to Delhi via Montreal and London, was blown apart midair by a bomb, killing all 329 people on board. Among the dead were 268 Canadian citizens. Until the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, it would be the deadliest act of aviation terrorism...
While Crassus was killed in the Battle of Carrhae, along with tens of thousands of his men, the fate of thousands of captured Roman soldiers remains one of history’s greatest mysteries. Some historical sources suggest that Roman legionaries were taken eastward, possibly ending up in China, thousands of miles from Rome. Could a band of battle-hardened Romans have made it to the farthest reaches of the known world?
On the evening of May 10, 1941, a solitary aircraft soared across the North Sea, its engine roaring as it made its way toward the British Isles. The pilot, dressed in a Luftwaffe uniform, was Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s long-time confidant and the Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany. His destination: Scotland. His mission: a secret peace negotiation with Britain—or so he claimed.
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Henry “Box” Brown, an enslaved man in Richmond, Virginia, often prayed to God about escaping. Finally, according to his own narrative written much later, instructions came from up above to “go and get a box and put yourself in it.” And Brown did just that.
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It was Benjamin Franklin’s illegitimate son, twenty-one-year-old William, who had helped with the famous kite experiment. The two were close, and the elder Franklin even used his influence to have William appointed Governor of New Jersey. But then came the Revolutionary War, and to Franklin’s dismay, his son sided with the enemy.
Peter speaks with the Director of Teaching and Learning at the American Historical Association about the organization's newest and largest-ever survey of history education in American secondary schools.
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Sometime in 1901, a reporter asked Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, if he was planning to attend a particular presidential reception. He looked at the men and replied, “No, I’m not going and they’d better not invite me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”
The Partition of India in 1947 was one of the most defining and devastating moments in modern history. It was a story of a nation torn apart at birth, a story of hope shattered by hatred, and a story of unimaginable suffering for millions of ordinary people. To understand the Partition, one must understand the centuries of history that preceded it and the decisions made in the final, chaotic moments of British rule that sealed the ...
At the dawn of the 20th century, as the United States emerged from its own internal struggles and territorial expansions, it began to cast a long shadow over Latin America — a region that became both a playground for American business interests and a stage for a new kind of imperialism. What unfolded over the next century was a complex story of economic exploitation, military intervention, and the creation of fragile, dependent reg...
President Warren G. Harding, the 29th POTUS, had many corruption scandals that tainted his presidency back in the 1920s. Yet, apart from the textbook-bound-forever Teapod Dome Scandal, there was one that hit closer to home for Mr. Harding. Namely, the case of one of his reported 7 mistresses, a nineteen-year-old who gave birth to his illegitimate daughter.
The Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, arose from a convergence of scientific curiosity, educational reform, and darker impulses of the 20th century. Its history is equal parts ambition, innovation, and controversy—an evolving tale of how society has tried to quantify the unquantifiable.
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Members of the House of David religious community did not know when Jesus Christ would return to Earth, but they were certain that it would happen in Benton Harbor, Michigan. So, they built a settlement and waited for Christ’s return - all while playing baseball... yep.
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Peter and Steve speak about his career, time with the History Channel, and his newest release, Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower to JFK through Reagan and Bush.
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