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The Forgotten Race to Map the Amazon's Last Wilderness
In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett vanished into the Amazon rainforest while searching for a lost civilization he called "Z." Accompanied by his…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
An American Adventurer Steals Nicaragua
In the 1850s, a little-known American adventurer set out to do something almost unimaginable: seize control of a foreign nation and make himself its …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
America's First Serial Killers & the Dark Side of the Revolution, w/ Katherine Grandjean
In 1798, on the lawless roads of Kentucky and Tennessee, two brothers named Wiley and Micajah Harp unleashed a brutal nine-month killing spree that l…
4 months ago
How the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Still Runs the World
In the summer of 1944, as World War II still raged across Europe and the Pacific, representatives from forty-four nations gathered at a secluded reso…
4 months ago
Lights, Camera, Propaganda: Hollywood and the Cold War
During the Cold War, the battle between the United States and the Soviet Union wasn't fought only with missiles, spies, and armies. It was also fough…
4 months ago
The Black Death - A Global History of Humanity's Deadliest Pandemic, w/ Thomas Asbridge
In this powerful episode of Conversations, I sit down with leading medieval historian Professor Thomas Asbridge to discuss his groundbreaking new boo…
4 months ago
The Extraordinary History of SPAM
Few foods are as recognizable—or as misunderstood—as a can of SPAM. The small pink block of processed meat has been mocked, celebrated, rationed, smu…
4 months ago
How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Rewrote Japan's Story
In October 1964, the eyes of the world turned toward Tokyo. Less than twenty years after the devastation of World War II, Japan hosted the 1964 Summe…
4 months ago
How the Bicycle Launched the Women's Rights Movement
In the late nineteenth century, a simple invention transformed far more than transportation. As bicycles became affordable and widely available, they…
4 months ago
Were the Founding Fathers Good Men? | The Historians with Joseph Ellis & Carol Berkin
Welcome to THE HISTORIANS — a brand new series on History Shorts where host Peter Zablocki brings together two leading historians for an unscripted, …
4 months, 1 week ago