History Shorts

Our guest today is H.W. Brands, an award-winning historian, the Chair of History at the University of Texas at Austin, and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Long before the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 and the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the most destructive terrorist attack in New York City occurred on September 16, 1920. In fact, at the time, the Wall Street bombing of 1920, also known as the J.P. Morgan bombing, was considered the deadliest act of terrorism in U.S. history.

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Nero was one of ancient Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and vice, and whose reign eventually descended into chaos and rebellion. But did you know that an accidental discovery of his grand palace complex, Domus Aurea, in 1480 might have inspired the Renaissance?

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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?"

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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?

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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.

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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…

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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?

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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.

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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?

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