The Curse of the Hope Diamond
The diamond industry has thrived for centuries with the shiny rocks acting as status symbols for those who can afford them. But, there is one famous diamond in history, considered one of the world's m...
22 Aug 20248min
Bringing Down the Knights Templar
While the Crusades' quest to recover and hold the Holy Land saw the rise of several influential military orders, the Knights Templar is, by far, the most known. In fact, they had become so powerful an...
21 Aug 20249min
Mohawk Skywalkers
Behind New York City's skyline lies the story of fearless Mohawk Indians once hired by the Dominion Bridge Company as ironworkers a century earlier. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Lea...
20 Aug 20248min
The Tunguska Event
On the morning of June 30, 1908, a powerful explosion ripped through the remote Siberian wilderness near the Tunguska River. That much we know, but what created the explosion 1,000 times greater than ...
19 Aug 20248min
Trivia: Cold War
Are you ready to test your Cold War knowledge? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
18 Aug 20246min
What If: League of Nations
What IF America had joined the League of Nations instead of Congress failing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles? Would World War II had been prevented? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast ...
17 Aug 202411min
Conversations: The power of art in the historical narrative, w/ Sabin Howard
Mr. Sabin Howard is one of the greatest artists of his generation, a classical-figurative master sculptor who has spent the last few years of his life designing and creating A Soldier's Journey, a 60-...
16 Aug 202426min
Lost City of Angkor
For hundreds of years, rumors of the lost city of Angkor spread among Cambodian peasants. Then, on a hot day in 1860, Henri Mahout and his porters discovered that the ancient city was more than mere l...
15 Aug 20248min
