History Snippets

A History Snippet about the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. The sweetest disaster in history.

A History Snippet about the War of the Oaken Bucket. One of medieval times bloodiest battles for the stupidest reason.

A History Snippet about John Dillinger, one of history's smoothest criminals.

A History Snippet about the Peking to Paris Race of 1907. An off-road race through mountains, deserts and tundras in old automobiles.

A History Snippet about the great swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, a samurai who defeated every opponent with a single blow from a wooden training sword.

A History Snippet about the Demon Core. A cursed, radioactive sphere of plutonium responsible for many, many deaths.

A History Snippet about the Bisbee Deportation. A tale of a mining town trapped under the dystopian rule of a mega corporation.

A History Snippet about Nellie Bly, a no-nonsense journalist who went undercover in asylums and jails, broke the world record for traveling around the world and wrote a ton of articles and books. Update: We fixed the audio issues!

A History Snippet about Juan Pujol García, a spy who can be credited for not only making D-Day possible and getting the Enigma codes, but winning WWII entirely.

A History Snippet about Henry McCarty, the boyhood bandit, who rustled horses, escaped jails, ran a gang and fought in a war, all at the age of 15.

A History Snippet about Mary Henrietta Kingsley, a Victorian explorer of the African jungles, who traveled with headhunters and climbed mountains.