History Shorts

Did you know that the study of history, the very principles of historical inquiry and methodology that influence the discipline today began in Ancient Greece with one, Herodotus, referred to as the "Father of History?" https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The principle of "an eye for an eye" is often associated with the concept of lex talionis, which is Latin for "law of retaliation." But did you know that the saying's oldest known origin was only discovered in 1901 by a group of French archeologists who uncovered the famous Code of Hammurabi? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

Today's guest is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of, among other works, the best-selling Summer of Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion and the most recent American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation .  https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rosewell is indisputably the most famous alleged UFO crash site in American history. But did you know that one morning in 1897, six years before the Wright Brothers invented their airplane and fifty years before Rosewell, a massive cigar-shaped UFO was seen in the skies above Texas? Potentially… maybe… https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

World War II is one of the most documented conflicts in all of world history, with countless memoirs, documents, recorded recollections, pictures, and movies. But when it comes to the conflict, one of the most chilling records was the Nazi documentation of its own Holocaust atrocities. It begs the question - why did they keep a record of their own crimes? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPod...

We all know that there are two Virginias, but did you know that West Virginia is the only state formed because of the Civil War? While the rest of the nation dealt with the more popular confrontation between the North and the South, it was the division between East and West that led to the creation of a new state. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most renowned American writers of the 19th century whose famous works have stood the test of time. But did you know that in his lifetime, the master of the macabre was often viewed as troublesome and controversial for starting public feuds with other literary figures of the time? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

Today's guest is Mr. Rick Beyer, a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary producer, and co-host of the History Happy Hour podcast.   https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast  

Did you know that although the Egyptian Supreme Court for Antiquities has officially recognized over 140 search attempts, no one has yet found the current location of Alexander's tomb and body? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, one of the most iconic and enduring literary characters. But did you know that in 1906, the famed author traded in his typewriter for a detective hat and helped solve an actual crime? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Billions of people have read the Christian Bible over centuries, and countless scholars, rabbis, ministers, and priests have spent their entire lives studying it. But did you know that despite the book's inarguable influence, to this day, nobody can quite agree as to its origins? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Raphael is one of the United States' foremost authorities on the subject of the American Revolution and an author of twenty books. Howard Zinn called his A People's History of the American Revolution "The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have ever read." https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

King Charles II, also known as the "Merry Monarch," was a significant figure in English history, particularly during the Restoration period. But did you know that on the morning of February 2, 1685, the King fell to the floor in his bathroom because of potentially having poisoned himself by accident? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Specialist 5th Class Clarence Eugene Sasser served in Vietnam as an Army Medic. Through numerous wounds and excruciating pain, he continuously administered aid to fellow soldiers for 20 hours as his company was attacked in Vietnam. To hear more of Sasser's story listen to his episode on our other show; Warrior In Their Own Words. You can read Sasser's Medal of Honor Citation on the  National Meda...

Leaving the argument of which is better, Pepsi or Coca-Cola, for another time, did you know that the most popular soft drink in the world, Coca-Cola, was invented quite by accident in 1866 by an American pharmacist named John Pemberton trying to create a pain killer? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's death is perhaps as much an enigma today as it was when shared with the world by the Russian propaganda machine in 1953. But did you know that Stalin's chances of living may just have been greater had he not waged war against his nation's most skilled doctors shortly before suffering the stroke that killed him? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodc...

The affair between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra is one of history's most famous and intriguing love stories. But did you know that it also produced Caesar's only male heir? Caesarion was destined to be both a Roman Emperor and an Egyptian Pharaoh. In the end, it was this very destiny that led to his premature death at the age of 17. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about yo...

Few people remember Napoleon III's attempt to use the turmoil of the American Civil War in the 1860s to sneak past the United States Monroe Doctrine and establish a French client state in Mexico. But did you know, it is in this context, many Mexicans and Americans celebrate Cinco the Mayo each May? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Did you know that in the 1930s, a historian named Harry E. Pratt studied Abraham Lincoln's purchase history and found a receipt for a fifty-cent purchase of cocaine just a month before Honest Abe would become president? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest today is Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jack H. Jacobs. His selfless acts under fire in Vietnam saved the lives of fellow soldiers and earned him the nation's highest military honors. The story of Mr. Jacobs' life before and after the defining event is one of resilience, leadership, and unwavering principles. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choic...

The Montana-born feminist and pacifist Jeannette Rankin may have been the first woman elected to the American Congress. But did you know that, to military historians and others alike, she is known as the only member of Congress to vote against the United States' entry into both World War I and World War II? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

The ancient Egyptian pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, became one of the period's most famous rulers after the discovery of his nearly intact tomb in the Valley of Kings in 1922, but did you know that part of the media frenzy surrounding the unearthing of his resting place was also the talk of an ancient curse that led to some members of the discovery party dying in mysterious circumstances?  https://www...

Who has not heard at least one of Elvis Presley's songs or knows exactly who they are looking at when they see his image? But did you know that the details surrounding the king of rock and roll's untimely death are just as big of a part of pop culture as his life and music? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's guest is Mr. Roger Moorhouse, the famed British historian, author, and professor whose extensive research and books on Eastern European and World War II history have been translated into multiple languages. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of the American Great Depression, as taught in schools, often shies away from discussing one of the nation's most embarrassing debacles, namely the popularity of the American Nazi Movement, called the German Bund. But did you know that within this surreal story is another, one of the Jewish professional boxers and gangsters working as Mafia enforcers against these American Nazis? https:/...