Penny Auctions: Defiance in the Great Depression
During the darkest years of the Great Depression, Americans didn't just lose jobs, homes, and savings—they lost faith in the systems meant to protect them. Out of that desperation emerged a strange an...
18 Feb 10min
Charlemagne: The Man Who Rebuilt Europe
In the chaos left behind by the fall of Rome, Europe fractured into violence, petty kingdoms, and fading memory. Then one man began stitching it back together by force, faith, and fire. Known to histo...
17 Feb 10min
The Sesame Street Story
In 1969, amid urban inequality, educational gaps, and a rapidly changing America, a revolutionary idea took shape: what if television could teach—and teach every child, regardless of background? The r...
16 Feb 10min
Harvard Professor Finds 'Perfect Woman'
In 1908, Dudley Allen Sargent, a professor at Harvard University, shocked the nation by announcing he had scientifically identified the "perfect woman." Her name was Annette Kellerman — a fearless swi...
15 Feb 11min
The Story of the Smithsonian Institution
n this episode of History Shorts, we explore how an unlikely bequest sparked the creation of America's great national museums, the struggles to bring them to life, and how the Smithsonian grew into a ...
14 Feb 12min
Conversations: Lessons from Alternative History, w/ Harry Turtledove
In this Conversation Series episode of History Shorts, Peter sits down with the undisputed master of alternative history, Harry Turtledove, to explore how a single changed moment in the past can resha...
13 Feb 28min
Mutiny on the Bounty
In 1789, one of the most famous rebellions in maritime history exploded aboard the British ship HMS Bounty. After months at sea under the harsh command of Captain William Bligh, a group of sailors led...
12 Feb 11min
The Somme, 1916
In the summer of 1916, along a quiet stretch of countryside in northern France, one of the deadliest battles in human history erupted — and forever changed the nature of warfare. In this episode of Hi...
11 Feb 11min
