History that deserves to be remembered. If you love history, this is the channel for you! Stories of forgotten history, all between five and fifteen minutes long.
From The History Guy. Head to https://squarespace.com/thehistoryguy to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using THEHISTORYGUY A chilling story of the coldest days of the Cold War whose ending may warm your heart. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based…
From The History Guy. Not too far from my house, in the town of East Alton, Illinois, there is a historic marker to an almost forgotten part of local history. It commemorates a stockyard that only stood for a few years. The East Alton stockyards were an important way and gathering station for horses, being…
From The History Guy. The loss of the HMS Eurydice in 1878 is a story of tragedy, of mystery, and of enduring legend. Sailors still say the ship still haunts the waters around the Isle of Wight . Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based…
From The History Guy. Three classic The History Guy episodes: 00:00: The Royal Canadian Regiment and The Battle of Paardeberg 10:51: Canada, the Great War, and Flanders Fields 24:12: D Day: The First Canadian Parachute Battalion and the Battle for the Village of Varaville Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise:…
From The History Guy. The astonishing story of two women and two children trapped after an avalanche in the Piedmont region of Italy in 1755 is a tale of true history almost beyond belief. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based on research by The…
From The History Guy. "Science can find no greater valor in its annals of investigation and sacrifice than that of Ada Blackjack.” Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide…
From The History Guy. Head to https://squarespace.com/thehistoryguy to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using THEHISTORYGUY Known as the Eighty-years War, fighting between Spain and various separatist forces would give rise to some of history’s most fierce and feared pirates. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy…
From The History Guy. Three classic the History Guy episodes about man’s best friends. 00:00 Dalmatians: Firehouse Dogs 13:50 Barry, the Best of Dogs 27:00 Just Nuisance of the Royal Navy Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images…
From The History Guy. The Des Moines Register reported in 1990: "When Edouard Izac died earlier this year, few remembered the Iowa native or knew that he was a hero of his country.” As is often the case, the nation forgets its heroes almost as quickly as they rise. Check out our new shop for…
From The History Guy. Like most states of the Union, the creation of Nevada’s boundaries was as much a matter of politics as of geography. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully…
From The History Guy. One classmate wrote in the alumni newsletter: "Ask any member of ‘42 and you will find it unanimous in feeling that many of our finest gave their all in World War Two." Volume 3: John Ott Sanders Damron, Kenneth Earl Dyson ,Thaddeus Francis Dziuban ,William Hampton Edwards , Joseph Richard Elliott,…
From The History Guy. A cow with a name produces more milk than one without. And that might not be the strangest thing about moo juice, a decidedly odd part of human history. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based on research by The History…
From The History Guy. The Ford Rouge River plant has been used to produce 28 vehicle models, and continues to be used -today manufacturing aluminum Ford F-150 bodies. But, little remembered today, the factory was not originally built to make automobiles, but to manufacture ships for the US Navy. Check out our new shop for…
From The History Guy. Head to https://squarespace.com/thehistoryguy to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using THEHISTORYGUY At some point, someone in history bit into a plant, felt like their mouth was on fire, and said “more.” Were they brave? Stupid? Or just hungry? In fact, humans have a uniquely warm…
From The History Guy. Texas, California, and Vermont were all independent for a time, and the state of Hawaii was a kingdom for nearly a century before US interests overthrew the monarchy. Much lesser known was the short lived Republic of Florida. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This…
From The History Guy. Airships were the future, before they weren’t. Three classic The History Guy episodes about the magnificent, and accident prone, behemoths of the sky. 00:00 The Largest Airship of its Time: The Morrell Airship 15:24 The 1926 Race to the Pole, a story of polar exploration 25:51 The first American-built rigid airship,…
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From The History Guy. Of the 374 graduates of the US Military Academy class of 1942, seventy-nearly one in five- would not survive the war. Their names are engraved on a marker at the academy. Their stories deserve to be remembered, and I am committed, so far as my meager voice can, to tell the…
From The History Guy. Head to https://squarespace.com/thehistoryguy to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using THEHISTORYGUY What is generally considered to be the first successful, daylight bank robbery in the United States during peacetime occurred in Liberty, Missouri on February 13, 1866. But were Frank and Jesse James involved? Check…
From The History Guy. The belief in Vampires or Vampire-like beings well predates the modern era, and superstitions about them ran deep. Those beliefs extended even to the modern era, when “vampire panics” led people to exhume corpses they thought were somehow affecting the living. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy…
From The History Guy. Seventy years ago the world faced the very real threat of a nuclear confrontation that involved an operation with the dramatic title “King Kong.” Which then, changed Chinese cuisine in America. Check out our new shop for fun The History Guy merchandise: https://thehistoryguy-shop.fourthwall.com/products/thg-history This is original content based on research by…