Pearl Harbor, Part 1 of 3
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, changed the course of the Second ...
The Russian Revolution
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1917, revolution changed Russia forever. Putting an end to 300 years of the Romanov dynasty, it m...
The Titanic
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Titanic was the largest moveable object in history: almost 900 feet long, and holding over two t...
The Vikings
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Viking exploration changed the course of history in the northern hemisphere. As raiders and pirates,...
The Knights Templar
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For almost two hundred years, the Knights Templar were one of the most fearsome military forces in t...
Prohibition
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For thirteen years from 1920, the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic drinks was bann...
The Watergate Scandal
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When five men are caught inside a Washington DC office block in June 1972, it’s noted in police re...
The Suffragettes
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While British women had been requesting the right to vote for decades, in the early 1900s, the Suffr...
The Berlin Wall
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the border between the Western world and the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Co...
The Ottoman Empire
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For over six hundred years the Ottoman Empire ruled swathes of the Middle East, North Africa, and So...
The Underground Railroad
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Underground Railroad helped up to 100,000 enslaved people to freedom. It was America’s first c...
Apollo 13
07 Feb 2022
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April 13th, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth, three astronauts are approaching lunar orbit when they h...
Bonnie and Clyde
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forged by the Great Depression, Bonnie and Clyde became icons of lawlessness, thrilling and shocking...
Ernest Shackleton
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Antarctica, October 1915. 1200 miles from civilisation, Ernest Shackleton watches from the ice as hi...
The Christmas Truce
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Christmas eve, 1914. On the Western Front, a British soldier peers out across No Man’s Land...
The Roman Republic
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
March 15th, 44BC. Despite ill omens, Julius Caesar approaches the Theatre of Pompey. But the men ins...
The Pirate Queen
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s November 28th, 1809. The Imperial fleet in Tung Chung Bay is aflame. But the crew of Zheng I ...
Pyramids
22 Nov 2021
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Sakkara, Egypt, 2,630BC. A man stands atop a structure of dizzying height as the final block grinds ...
William Wallace
15 Nov 2021
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Despised by the English, mistrusted by the Scottish nobles, and revered by his countrymen: William W...
The Samurai
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a bloody battle on September 22nd, 1877, Saigo Takamori and his loyal warriors pause on a hill...
The Gunpowder Plot
01 Nov 2021
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One night in November 1605, a man is discovered underneath England’s Houses of Parliament. And he’...
Rosa Parks
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By the time she died in 2005, Rosa Parks was known around the world as an icon of activism. Her act ...
Alcatraz
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cloaked in secrecy, discussed by even the most hardened criminals as a place of terror, US Penitenti...
The Maya
10 Oct 2021
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In 1511, a Spanish lifeboat makes land on the Yucatán coast in modern-day Mexico. Thirteen days ago...
The Moon Landing
03 Oct 2021
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After multiple coups by the Soviet Union, astronaut Alan B. Shepard has just become the first Americ...
The Space Race
26 Sep 2021
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Humanity has always looked to the heavens, pondering what is really out there. But how did space tra...
The Black Death
19 Sep 2021
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In October 1347, a ghostly fleet of trading ships docks at a port in Sicily. The crew members – de...
Tutankhamun
12 Sep 2021
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In November 1922, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, a young water boy called Hussein Abdul Rasoul make...
Pompeii and the Vesuvius Eruption
05 Sep 2021
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What happens when a volcano erupts just six miles from a bustling city? In 79 AD Mount Vesuvius is r...
The California Gold Rush
29 Aug 2021
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On January 24th, 1848, a carpenter from Coloma plunges a hand into the American River and pulls out ...
Blackbeard the Pirate
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 18th century, one man makes his name as the most notorious pirate of all time. The lege...
The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 2 of 2
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On October 16th, 1962, John F. Kennedy discovers that the Soviet Union has successfully planted ball...
The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1962, three men – Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro – hold the fate of the planet in th...
The Gladiators
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first-ever episode of Short History Of… we take a trip back in time to Ancient Rome, to dis...
Trailer: Short History Of...
27 Jul 2021
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Each week, Short History Of... gives you a front-row seat as history’s most extraordinary moments ...