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What Plato Warned Us About Reality
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A Prince Among Slaves
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Indentured Servants Who Became Presidents
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When H.W. Bush Got Shot Down in the Pacific
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Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S.' First Immigration Ban
It was the first federal law to single out an entire race, and it changed the trajectory of U.S. immigration policy forever.
In this episode of Histo…
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Franco-Prussian War Forges Modern Europe
Before World War I reshaped Europe, there was the Franco-Prussian War, a short but seismic conflict that redrew borders, toppled empires, and gave bi…
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TODAY IN CONTEXT: History of D-Day Celebrations
June 6, 1944—D-Day—marked the beginning of the end of World War II. But the way America remembers that day has changed dramatically over the decades.…
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Conversations: How We Almost Lost the Revolutionary War, w/ Rick Atkinson
In this riveting episode of History Shorts, host Peter Zablocki welcomes one of America's most celebrated historians, Rick Atkinson, to discuss the s…
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Reagan's Joke that Bombed
In this gripping episode of History Shorts, we unravel the story behind one of the most dangerous jokes in modern political history, President Ronald…
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Playboy Bunnies and Operation Babylift
In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as Saigon teetered on collapse, the U.S. launched Operation Babylift, a dramatic and deeply emotional e…
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