Brutus: The Man Who Killed Caesar
History Shorts
History remembers him as a traitor, but Brutus believed he was saving the Republic. In this episode of History Shorts, we trace the dramatic rise and catastrophic fall of Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman nobleman whose name became synonymous with betrayal after the assassination of Julius Caesar. Raised on the ideals of republican virtue, liberty, and resistance to tyranny, Brutus was torn between personal loyalty and political conviction as Caesar accumulated unprecedented power. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ...
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Ullamaliztli: The Deadly Sport of Mesoamerica
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Long before stadiums, scoreboards, or professional leagues, Mesoamerican civilizations played a game where sport, ritual, and the cosmos collided. In this episode of History Shorts, we explore Ullamaliztli, the ancient Mesoamerican ball game played for more than 3,000 years by the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec worlds. Using a solid rubber ball, sometimes weighing as much as a bowling ball, players struck it with hips, thighs, and forearms, battling gravity, physics, and pain itself to keep the ball in motion. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!...
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The Castrated Angel Singers of Rome
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For centuries, their voices were said to sound unearthly, pure, soaring, and unlike anything heard before or since. In this episode of History Shorts, we explore the haunting and controversial history of the Angel Singers of Rome: the castrati whose voices filled Europe’s greatest churches and concert halls. Created through a brutal practice carried out on young boys, castrati became musical superstars in early modern Europe, prized especially by the Catholic Church, which barred women from singing in sacred spaces. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU...
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Pulaski: The Father of American Cavalry
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In this episode of History Shorts, we tell the dramatic, transatlantic story of the Polish nobleman who helped shape the American Revolution from the saddle. Branded a traitor in his homeland after fighting Russian domination, Pulaski carried his hard-earned battlefield experience across the Atlantic and offered it to a desperate Continental Army. What followed was nothing short of transformative. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ADVERTISE: LEARN MORE: SPONSORED BY:
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The Great Awakenings: When America Found Religion
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At two pivotal moments in American history, waves of religious revival swept across the colonies and the young United States, reshaping faith, politics, reform movements, and the very idea of what it meant to be American. Known as the First and Second Great Awakenings, these movements transformed religion from an elite, church-centered experience into a mass, emotional, and deeply personal force. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ADVERTISE: LEARN MORE: SPONSORED BY:
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Did President Van Buren Invent How We Do Politics Today?
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Nicknamed “The Little Magician,” Martin Van Buren was one of the most skilled political operators in American history, and one of its most misunderstood presidents. He didn’t win power through battlefield glory or soaring rhetoric, but through organization, loyalty, and an almost modern understanding of party politics. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ADVERTISE: LEARN MORE: SPONSORED BY:
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Conversations: Spies in My Blood, w/ Alex Storozynski
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In this powerful interview, History Shorts welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, historian, and author Alex Storozynski to discuss his gripping book Spies in My Blood, a deeply personal exploration of espionage, resistance, and family legacy in 20th-century Europe. Drawing on newly uncovered intelligence files, wartime records, and family history long shrouded in silence, Storozynski reveals how members of his own Polish family waged a hidden war against both Nazi and Communist regimes. The conversation moves between the intimate and the geopolitical: how secrets are passed down...
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The Dred Scott Decision that shook America
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In 1857, the United States Supreme Court issued one of the most devastating rulings in its history: Dred Scott v. Sandford. At its center was Dred Scott, an enslaved man who sued for his freedom after living in free territory, only to be told by the nation’s highest court that he had no rights the court was bound to respect. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ADVERTISE: LEARN MORE: SPONSORED BY:
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Ike’s Heart Attack That made America Health-Conscious
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In September 1955, the most powerful man in the world, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, suffered a heart attack while in office. The news stunned the nation. At a time when heart disease was poorly understood, rarely discussed, and often treated as a private weakness, Eisenhower’s illness became a public reckoning with mortality, leadership, and modern health. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ADVERTISE: LEARN MORE: SPONSORED BY:
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Killing Margaret Thatcher
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In the early hours of October 12, 1984, a bomb detonated inside the Grand Hotel in Brighton, ripping through the building just feet from where British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was sleeping. The attack, carried out by the Irish Republican Army, was not random terror. It was a meticulously planned assassination attempt aimed at decapitating Britain’s political leadership in a single blow. DON’T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING OR A REVIEW! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! SUPPORT THE SHOW: ADVERTISE: LEARN MORE: SPONSORED BY:
info_outlineHistory remembers him as a traitor, but Brutus believed he was saving the Republic.
In this episode of History Shorts, we trace the dramatic rise and catastrophic fall of Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman nobleman whose name became synonymous with betrayal after the assassination of Julius Caesar. Raised on the ideals of republican virtue, liberty, and resistance to tyranny, Brutus was torn between personal loyalty and political conviction as Caesar accumulated unprecedented power.
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