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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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12:04

WWII's Battle Against Venereal Disease

History Shorts ·

2025/12/27

During World War II, the U.S. military fought enemies on beaches, in jungles, and in the skies, but it also faced a quieter, deeply embarrassing crisis within its own ranks. Venereal disease sidelined hundreds of thousands of American servicemen, threatening combat readiness, morale, and the outcome of the war itself. In this episode, we explore how sexually transmitted infections became one of the most serious medical challenges facing the U.S. armed forces during World War II, and how the military

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21:15

Why History Matters, with David McCullough

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2025/12/26

In this interview episode, I'm joined by Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill, the editors behind History Matters, a powerful collection drawn from the words and work of David McCullough. Together, they open a window into how one of America's most beloved historians understood the purpose of history, not as trivia or nostalgia, but as a civic responsibility. We talk about how the book was shaped, what guided their editorial choices, and how McCullough's speeches, essays, and reflections speak

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14:04

JFK's Hidden Health Crisis

History Shorts ·

2025/12/25

To the American public, John F. Kennedy embodied youth, energy, and vigor—a president who promised a New Frontier and appeared to stride confidently into history. Behind the scenes, however, the reality was far different. In this episode, we examine the extensive and carefully hidden medical struggles that defined Kennedy's life and presidency. From chronic pain and debilitating back injuries to Addison's disease and a pharmacy of daily medications, JFK governed the United States while battling

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13:50

The Teenager Who Invented the Television

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2025/12/24

Television reshaped the modern world, but its invention did not begin in a laboratory funded by a major corporation. It started in a plowed field. As a teenager growing up on a Utah farm, Philo Farnsworth sketched an idea that would change how humanity communicates: a system to transmit moving images electronically. Years later, that teenage insight became the foundation of television, setting off one of the most bitter and consequential patent battles in American history. DON'T FORGET TO

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13:25

Bigfoot: America's Most Enduring Legend

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2025/12/23

Long before grainy videos and blurry photographs flooded the internet, stories of a mysterious, human-like creature roaming the forests of North America were already deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions. Known by many names—Sasquatch, Skookum, or simply "the wild man"—Bigfoot has haunted campfire stories, newspaper headlines, and scientific debates for centuries. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE

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11:03

What an 80 Year Long Harvard Study Reveals About...

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2025/12/22

In the late 1930s, Harvard researchers began an unprecedented study: tracking hundreds of people across their entire lives to answer a deceptively simple question: what makes us happy? For more than eight decades, through wars, marriages, careers, illnesses, triumphs, and heartbreaks, scientists followed participants from youth to old age, gathering tens of thousands of data points in what became the longest-running study of human happiness ever conducted. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A

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12:49

The Forgotten Kingdom of Man and the Isles

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2025/12/21

Long before modern borders carved neat lines across the Irish Sea, there existed a maritime realm so unusual, so strategically placed, that its rulers commanded not just land, but the waters that bound Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia together. Known as the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, this forgotten dominion once stretched across the Hebrides and the Isle of Man, a Viking-Gaelic hybrid monarchy where Norse warlords, Celtic chiefs, and Christian bishops all vied for legitimacy and tribute. DON'T

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12:10

Killing George Washington

History Shorts ·

2025/12/20

In the summer of 1776, just as the ink of independence was drying and the Continental Army staggered under inexperience, disease, and desertion, a silent threat crept dangerously close to General George Washington. This wasn't a British field assault or naval bombardment. It was something more intimate, more treacherous: a conspiracy from within his own guard. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE

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25:11

'The Greatest Generation' OR 'The 'Wounded...

History Shorts ·

2025/12/19

In this episode, Peter speaks with Dr. David Nasaw, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, about his new book, The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II. We discuss moving beyond the triumphant 'Greatest Generation' myth, toward uncovering the unhealed physical and psychological scars that millions of veterans carried home. CHECK OUT DAVID'S BOOKS: https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Generation-Coming-After-World/dp/0593298691 SUPPORT THE

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12:53

The Freemasons

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2025/12/18

For centuries, the Freemasons have stood at the crossroads of fact and myth, secrecy and symbolism. Presidents, revolutionaries, artists, and ordinary craftsmen have all taken oaths behind closed lodge doors, giving rise to a legacy both admired and feared. In this episode, we cut through conspiracy chatter and look at the institution itself: its medieval origins, its Enlightenment boom, its role in revolutions from Philadelphia to Paris, and the coded rituals still whispered today. DON'T FORGET

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12:55

Napoleon's Missing Penis: A History No One Asked For

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2025/12/17

History remembers Napoleon as the iron-willed conqueror of Europe, the architect of empire, the man who crowned himself. But beneath the legend lies a stranger, more human story, one of what happened to his penis (and how it found itself in a shoebox in New Jersey). DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast ADVERTISE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/advertise LEARN

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11:40

Sacagawea: Beyond the Myth

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2025/12/16

She has been cast as the smiling guide, the willing helper, the gentle symbol of American westward expansion. But the real Sacagawea was more than a footnote to Lewis and Clark; she was a kidnapped Shoshone girl who navigated not just mountains and rivers, but men, power, empire, and survival. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast ADVERTISE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/advertise

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11:56

Belleau Wood: The Battle That Made the Marines

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2025/12/15

June 1918. A choking forest. Gas, machine-gun nests, and a German advance cutting toward Paris. Into that hell marched a fighting force the world barely knew: the United States Marine Corps. Belleau Wood was not just another World War I clash; it was the moment the Marines became the Marines. Their counterattacks were relentless, their losses staggering, and their reputation forged in blood and splintered timber. The Germans called them Teufelshunde -Devil Dogs - not out of poetry, but fear. DON'T

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14:36

Killing Che Guevara

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2025/12/14

Few figures of the 20th century are as mythologized, or as polarizing, as Ernesto "Che" Guevara. To some, he was the heroic doctor-turned-revolutionary who fought against imperialism from Cuba to the Congo. To others, he was a ruthless ideologue whose vision demanded bloodshed. In this episode, we cut through the legend to uncover the real man behind the iconic image. The second half of the episode dives into Che's final, and fatal, campaign in Bolivia. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING

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12:27

'The Conqueror' Movie Curse

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2025/12/13

In 1956, Hollywood set out to make an epic. Instead, it created one of the most cursed productions in film history. The Conqueror, starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan, was filmed in the Utah desert, downwind from a Nevada nuclear testing site. At the time, officials insisted the area was safe. Decades later, the cast and crew would look back in horror. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast

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19:55

Conversations: Life and Legacy of King James VI and...

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2025/12/12

Dr. Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a renowned expert on 17th-century Britain, joins us to discuss her latest book, The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and I, a captivating biography that brings to life one of history's most intriguing monarchs. BUY CLARE'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Great-Britain-Life-James/dp/1324094990 SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast

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12:19

Jesse Strang & the Kingdom Hidden Inside America

History Shorts ·

2025/12/11

In one of the most extraordinary and almost forgotten chapters in American history, a man named James Jesse Strang crowned himself king on U.S. soil. This episode unravels the rise of the self-declared monarch who founded a breakaway kingdom in the mid-19th century, complete with royal robes, loyal subjects, political power, and a remote island realm in Lake Michigan. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE

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13:14

Actium: The Battle That Shaped the Roman Empire

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2025/12/10

The Battle of Actium was the moment the ancient world pivoted. On September 2, 31 BCE, in the waters off western Greece, two colossal visions for Rome collided: Octavian's disciplined, expansionist republic-turned-empire, and the glamorous, multinational alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. What unfolded was not just a naval showdown but a clash of personalities, propaganda, and political futures. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE

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13:03

The Silk Road: Inside the World's First Global Network

History Shorts ·

2025/12/09

For over two thousand years, the Silk Road shaped the destiny of continents. More than a single road, it was a vast web of caravan routes stretching from the imperial courts of China to the markets of the Mediterranean, carrying not just silk but ideas, religions, technologies, and entire worldviews. This episode explores how merchants, monks, soldiers, and nomads turned deserts and mountain passes into the most influential trade network in human history. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A

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13:35

Vietnam War's Secret Phoenix Program

History Shorts ·

2025/12/08

The Phoenix Program remains one of the most controversial and least understood operations of the Vietnam War, a shadow war fought in the alleys, jungles, and hidden villages of South Vietnam. Created jointly by the CIA and U.S. military intelligence, the program aimed to dismantle the Viet Cong's covert political infrastructure by any means necessary. Supporters saw it as a precise counterinsurgency tool that finally struck at the enemy's hidden backbone; critics saw it as a morally corrosive

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