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History Shorts

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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21:12

Conversations: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion, w/...

History Shorts ·

2025/08/22

In this powerful episode, we’re joined by award-winning journalist and author Gregg Zoroya to discuss his gripping new book, Unremitting: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion and the Savage Battle That Marked the True Start of America’s War in Iraq. This is the untold story of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, known as the “Magnificent Bastards,” and the brutal, underrecognized battle they fought in Ramadi in April 2004. While Fallujah would come to dominate headlines, it was in Ramadi—just days earlier—that

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13:06

Stealing the Superfortress

History Shorts ·

2025/08/21

When three gleaming American B-29 Superfortresses made emergency landings in Soviet-held territory in 1944, it set in motion one of the most audacious acts of Cold War-era technological theft the world had ever seen. The Boeing B-29, the giant four-engine heavy bomber that carried the destructive promise of American airpower, was unlike anything the Soviets had in their arsenal. Stalin, paranoid as ever and obsessed with catching up to American military technology, immediately saw an opportunity

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12:33

Adding 'God' to the Pledge of Allegiance

History Shorts ·

2025/08/20

The phrase “under God” was not part of the original Pledge of Allegiance written by Francis Bellamy in 1892, but was added in 1954 amid Cold War tensions as a symbolic stand against “godless communism.” Spurred initially by the Knights of Columbus and later galvanized by a sermon heard by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Congress quickly passed and Eisenhower signed the amendment on Flag Day, framing it as a reaffirmation of America’s spiritual unity. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A

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13:14

History of the G-Men

History Shorts ·

2025/08/19

The story of the G-Men begins in an era when America had no permanent federal detective force, relying instead on private agencies like the Pinkertons. Reformers pushed for an in-house corps, and in 1908 Attorney General Charles Bonaparte quietly created the Bureau of Investigation. Initially small and unarmed, its agents pursued cases like antitrust violations and land fraud, but World War I and the Red Scare expanded its reach. Scandals in the early 1920s brought in a young J. Edgar Hoover, who

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11:57

The Search for 'Little Albert'

History Shorts ·

2025/08/18

In 1919–1920, Johns Hopkins psychologist John B. Watson conducted the now-infamous “Little Albert” experiment to show that fear could be conditioned in humans, pairing a loud noise with a white rat until the infant subject, nicknamed Albert, reacted with distress to the rat and other furry objects. While the study became a classic example in psychology textbooks, it was deeply flawed: it involved only one child, lacked proper controls, and offered no deconditioning to reverse the fear. More

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23:36

Conversations: The Warsaw Ghetto & the Holocaust, w/...

History Shorts ·

2025/08/17

In this powerful and deeply human episode of History Shorts, historian Dr. Katarzyna Person, Director of the upcoming Warsaw Ghetto Museum and author of The Hour of Revenge, joins the show to explore some of the most haunting, silenced, and complex chapters of Holocaust history. From her lifelong work on the Ringelblum Archive, a secret collection of documents buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, to her research on Jewish honor courts, revenge, and survival in the post-war years, Dr

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09:46

Andrew Jackson Arms His Slaves

History Shorts ·

2025/08/16

In 1811, Andrew Jackson, traveling with enslaved men along the Natchez Trace, confronted a challenge to his authority when a Native agent demanded proof of ownership for his slaves. In a dramatic response, Jackson armed his enslaved people and used them as a display of control to overpower the agent, emphasizing his belief in absolute power, while highlighting the complex and violent dynamics of slavery in the frontier South. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN

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31:23

Conversations: Why the Scopes Trial Still Matters...

History Shorts ·

2025/08/15

In this episode, we sit down with Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed historian and author of The Impeachers and Ecstatic Nation, to discuss her latest work: Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. At the center of this riveting new book is the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925, where a Dayton, Tennessee courtroom became the stage for a dramatic clash between science and religion, modernism and fundamentalism, and democracy and mob rule. Wineapple brings to life the drama, the

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11:21

The RMS Titanic Prophecy

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2025/08/14

In 1898, American author Morgan Robertson penned a novella titled Futility: Or the Wreck of the Titan. The plot centered around an enormous, luxurious ocean liner named the Titan that strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks, killing hundreds of passengers due to an inadequate number of lifeboats. When the Titanic met its tragic end in April 1912, striking an iceberg, sinking in eerily similar conditions, and killing over 1,500 passengers, many readers and historians alike were stunned by

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11:53

The Failed Lincoln Assassinations

History Shorts ·

2025/08/13

Apart from the bullet that claimed his life in April of 1865, at least two other times during his life, Lincoln found himself the target of gunfire. Though these earlier incidents did not result in death or even injury, they foreshadowed the dangers he would face as a president presiding over a divided and combustible nation. These lesser-known episodes of near assassination paint a fuller picture of a man who, long before martyrdom, walked with death on his heels. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND

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11:27

Sex, STDs, and the Lewis & Clark Expedition

History Shorts ·

2025/08/12

The epic journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark across the uncharted American West has long been celebrated as one of the most remarkable feats of exploration in U.S. history. But beneath the heroic narrative of adventure and scientific discovery lies a more uncomfortable, yet historically vital reality: venereal disease—particularly syphilis—was a constant and deeply disruptive problem for the men of the expedition. It was a hidden affliction that not only shaped individual fates but also

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12:46

Circuit Judges of the American West

History Shorts ·

2025/08/11

The frontier was a land of promise and peril, wide, unsettled, and often lawless. In this space between civilization and wilderness, one figure became both symbol and servant of order: the circuit judge. Mounted on horseback and armed with little more than a Bible, a law book, and an unshakable belief in justice, these roving magistrates brought the authority of the courts to some of the most remote corners of early America. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN

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37:50

Conversations: Was Charles Sumner the most important...

History Shorts ·

2025/08/10

In this compelling episode of History Shorts, we’re joined by scholar and author Zaakir Tameez to discuss his new book, Charles Sumner: The Conscience of a Nation. Tameez sheds new light on the life and legacy of one of America’s most uncompromising abolitionists and moral voices during the 19th century, a man whose fierce opposition to slavery, eloquent speeches, and refusal to compromise would leave a permanent mark on American democracy. From the infamous caning on the Senate floor to his complex

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12:57

Lincoln's Forgotten Vice President

History Shorts ·

2025/08/09

In 1860, as the nation teetered on the brink of civil war, the Republican Party crafted a ticket designed to bridge the divides of a fractured Union. Abraham Lincoln, a self‑taught prairie lawyer from Illinois, needed balance, someone seasoned, staunchly anti‑slavery, and from the East. The choice was not the man that you likely remember that became the president after Lincoln’s assassination, that was the second term vice president. I am talking about Hannibal Hamlin, a former Jacksonian Democrat

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20:58

Conversations: The American women who flew in World...

History Shorts ·

2025/08/08

Before America officially entered World War II, a group of daring young American women made history, only to be forgotten by it. In this episode, author Becky Aikman joins History Shorts to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Spitfires: The American Women Pilots Who Flew for Britain in World War II. Aikman takes us behind the scenes of her five-year journey uncovering the thrilling, heartbreaking, and near-unbelievable stories of the 25 American women who joined Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary,

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10:15

Tsar Nicholas' Forbidden Love for a Ballerina

History Shorts ·

2025/08/07

In the glittering court of imperial St. Petersburg, amid opulent balls and the orchestral sweep of Wagner and Tchaikovsky, a forbidden romance once stirred hearts and defied decorum. The man destined to become Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas Alexandrovich, found himself irresistibly drawn to a ballerina who moved like a goddess on stage and held his fate in her poised grasp. Mathilde Kschessinska, the enchanting Prima Ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre, captivated more than audiences; she captured a

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10:57

The Great Train Robbery of 1963

History Shorts ·

2025/08/06

On August 8, 1963, just after 3 a.m., the quiet Buckinghamshire countryside was electrified by one of the most daring heists in British history. A Royal Mail train hurtling down the West Coast Main Line was stopped at a signal deliberately manipulated by a meticulously planned gang drifting in blue boiler suits. In under twenty minutes, they had ripped open sacks of cash, bundles worth £2.6 million, ransacked the train, and vanished into the night. This was not a robbery; it was a feat of criminal

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11:30

The Search for Cleopatra's Tomb

History Shorts ·

2025/08/05

Few names from antiquity evoke the same mystique, glamour, and controversy as Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. A queen both revered and reviled across centuries of historical retellings, she has been cast variously as a seductive manipulator, a brilliant political strategist, a tragic lover, and an ambitious ruler who dared to challenge Rome’s expanding grip. Yet for all the drama and detail surrounding her life, Cleopatra’s final resting place remains one of

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12:38

The Vatican's WWII Spy Network

History Shorts ·

2025/08/04

When it comes to the shadowy world of World War II espionage, the Vatican might seem an unlikely player. After all, enclosed behind the ancient walls of the Holy See, the spiritual heart of Roman Catholicism maintained an image of neutrality and detachment. Yet beneath the marble floors and hushed halls of the Vatican, a hidden war raged; a covert struggle fought not with weapons, but with whispers, parchment, and secret meetings. Behind the public façade of impartiality, Pope Pius XII and a tight

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25:00

Conversations: How Habsburgs Transformed Europe, w/...

History Shorts ·

2025/08/03

In this captivating episode, we sit down with Dr. Martyn Rady, a renowned British historian and preeminent expert on Central Europe, to unravel the layered legacies of the Habsburg Empire. From his early love of history (sparked by history-teacher parents) to the surprising global reach of Habsburg rule, Rady brings both wit and wisdom to the mic. We explore how the Habsburgs’ dynastic empire spanned continents, managed competing national identities, and enacted tens of thousands of edicts, some so

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