History Shorts

Did you know that if it had not been for one woman's courage to throw herself against a crazed would-be assassin during a rally in 1933, none of the feats that made Franklin D. Roosevelt great would have ever happened?

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Did you know that another 13th Amendment was proposed in 1861, striving to forever protect the very institution that the 1865 Amendment abolished? In retrospect, the vote was too close for comfort.

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Did you know that in 1921, when Lenin's socialist order and plans for a world-scale communist revolution seemed to be coming apart in Russia, the so-called father of Soviet communism retreated from the very ideology he so desperately tried to impose on his people?

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Most recent shocking events out of Pennsylvania point to another example of how history is often circular and not linear. And while everyone undoubtedly remembers learning in history class of the terrible and history-changing presidential assassinations, the failed attempt on former President Donald J. Trump's life is not the only time in American history that an assailant has failed to take the life of an American president.

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Some might be familiar with the story of how the man from Scotland invented the telephone. Still, the story of Bell shortly after that behaving quite strangely for a man who had just invented a revolutionary new technology worth millions of dollars is often lost to history.

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British author and historian Andrew Pettegree is a distinguished professor at the University of St. Andrews and an expert on the history of books and media. His extensive body of work includes titles such as "The Invention of News" and his most recent "The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading,"

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We have heard someone say, "This is a free country, and I have the freedom of speech." But did you know that the concept and practice of freedom of speech underwent significant changes in the United States history in 1917, and you may be stuck referring to its outdated meaning?

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The Tower of London has a long and storied history as a site of imprisonment, torture, and execution, dating back over a thousand years. But did you know that the last person to be executed in the Tower was a German spy, not during the medieval time but as recently as August 14, 1941?

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Many rulers in history stand out for their cruelty, violence, and the profound impact their actions had on their subjects and the world at large. But did you know that history's deadliest monarch, King Leopold II, does not belong to antiquity but to early modern times? https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast

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William the Conqueror is perhaps best known for defeating King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But did you know that after a freak horse accident, he then suffered a slow and painful death that culminated in one of history's most disastrous royal funerals?

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