The Civil War Hospital Ships that Invented Modern Trauma Care
The first hospital ship in U.S. Navy history wasn't purpose-built—it was a captured Confederate steamer transformed into one of the Civil War's greatest innovations. Commissioned in 1862, the Red Rove...
27 Jul 0s
The Man Who Sold 'Winter'
In the early nineteenth century, the idea of shipping ice to the tropics sounded ridiculous. After all, who would pay for something that melted before it arrived? In this episode of History Shorts, we...
26 Jul 0s
Napoleon & the Invention of Canned Food
In this episode of History Shorts, we explore the remarkable story of Nicolas Appert, the Paris confectioner who revolutionized the way the world eats. Hoping to win a prize offered by the French gove...
25 Jul 0s
Reviving Civic Education in American Classrooms, w/ Jack Miller Center President, Hans Zeiger
In this episode, I sit down with Hans Zeiger, President of the Jack Miller Center and former Washington State legislator. Hans shares how a childhood love of presidential biographies and interviewing ...
24 Jul 0s
The Forgotten WWI Choctaw Code Talkers
Everyone knows the story of the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II. Far fewer know that the first Native American code talkers helped change the course of a war more than two decades earlier. In this...
23 Jul 0s
Abraham Lincoln's Lifelong Battle with Depression
In 1841, a thirty-one-year-old lawyer from Illinois wrote a heartbreaking letter to his law partner: "I am now the most miserable man living." That lawyer was Abraham Lincoln. Long before he became on...
22 Jul 0s
When the Coffeehouse Became the Most Dangerous Room in Europe
In 1675, King Charles II of England declared war on an unlikely enemy: the coffeehouse. These weren't taverns or gambling halls—they were places where ordinary people gathered to read newspapers, exch...
21 Jul 0s
THE HISTORIANS #2 - How "Wild" was the Wild West? I Paul Andrew Hutton & Mark Lee Gardner
Welcome back to THE HISTORIANS — the series here on History Shorts where I sit down with two leading historians for an unscripted conversation about the questions that have shaped how we understand ou...
20 Jul 36min
