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. A terrifying tale from the Age of Sail. The website of the Penobscot maritime museum was likely being deliberately understated when they wrote: “As one can imagine, wooden ships and fire do not make for a good day at sea.” The fire aboard HMS Queen Charlotte is history that deserves to…
From The History Guy. From the History Guy Vaults, five episodes about armored vehicles. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy! 00:00 – Tiger 131 and the Battle at Guriat el Atach 13:26 – Oddball Tanks: Extemporized Armored Fighting Vehicles 26:40 – Mephisto and the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux 38:58 – The 1943 Battle of…
From The History Guy. A fast moving “Alberta Clipper,” struck so quickly on March 15, 1941 across North Dakota and Minnesota that it stranded thousands of people, and killed more than 100. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in…
From The History Guy. Listen to this episode of the THG Podcast, which posts in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases on podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed for more: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode, the History Guy tells…
From The History Guy. It is March 13, and 346 years ago today the Massachusetts bay colony made a novel purchase. Boston Magazine wrote in 2014: “On March 13, 1677, the imperial dreams of Massachusetts came to fruition. For on that day, our colony bought Maine for £1,250 sterling.” Check out our new community for…
From The History Guy. Enjoy 10% off 6” and 8.5” MOVA Globes with code THEHISTORYGUY. Shop now at https://bit.ly/TheHistoryGuyMOVAGlobes Even as the IAU was officially demoting Pluto, NASA was sending the first probe intended to study it. The history of our surprisingly fond relationship with what was originally known as “Planet X” deserves to be…
From The History Guy. France and England were traditional rivals, but in 1520 the two kingdoms attempted to improve their relations with a dramatic display of wealth and politics. That is, they both attempted to impress each other by throwing one heck of a party. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/…
From The History Guy. As today is celebrated as Pulaski Day here in Illinois, please enjoy this updated version of the history of the father of American Cavalry. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are…
From The History Guy. Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/Historyguy Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch “World War II: Saving the Reality” about the International Museum of World War II , and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: https://www.magellantv.com/video/world-war-ii-saving-the-reality The battle of Manila represents, in short, the horror of war,…
From The History Guy. The Indianapolis Star wrote on December 13, 2018: “Most people know nothing about Indiana’s nuclear bomb incident." The term “Cold war” sometimes belies that fact that that war produced very real casualties. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The…
From The History Guy. Listen to this episode of the THG Podcast, which posts in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases on podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed for more: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode, the History Guy tells…
From The History Guy. A half century after Marco Polo’s journey, a Muslim scholar little known here in the west traveled more than four times as far. Like Marco Polo, the record of his journey provides in some cases the only remaining written account of exotic places and people. Check out our new community for…
From The History Guy. Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom from school, and responsibilities. They represented the innocence of youth. We laughed, we cheered, we absorbed basic lessons about friendship, and heroism, and right and wrong. And yet, it seems, it was another quaint ritual of a forgotten time, slowly being relegated to forgotten history. Check…
From The History Guy. it was difficult to be more of a Nazi than Reichsmarschall Herman Goering. Perhaps that is what makes it so surprising that his younger brother Albert was so different. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images…
From The History Guy. Four classic The History Guy episodes about inventions that changed the world. 00:00 – Horsepower: James Watt and the Transition from Horse to Steam 11:32 – The Plastic Revolution: Celluloid 25:58 – The Forgotten History of Sewing Machines 38:40 – Robertson, Phillips, and the History of the Screwdriver Check out our…
From The History Guy. In 2020 Cybercrime magazine wrote that “If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — which is predicted to inflict damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China.” Insider magazine noted in 2017 that Billionaire Warren Buffet “sees…
From The History Guy. In 2018 The Atlantic observed “For some Americans, a trip to the ballpark isn’t complete without the bright-yellow squiggle of French’s mustard atop a hot dog… Yet few realize that this condiment has been equally essential—maybe more so—for the past 6,000 years." Check out our new community for fans and supporters!…
From The History Guy. Listen to this episode of the THG Podcast, which posts in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases on podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed for more: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode, The History Guy tells…
From The History Guy. The “Flour riot” is not as well known as more destructive New York City riots of the nineteenth century like the Astor Place riots or the draft riots, but some of the story- from concern over high prices of food to accusations of fake news, to inflammatory speeches, seem surprisingly familiar…
From The History Guy. February 12 represents the 214th birthday of Charles Darwin, a scientist whose ideas transformed human understanding of the natural world, and undoubtedly one of the most influential scientists in history. But that history may have been different, as Dawrin’s career altering voyage aboard HMS Beagle almost didn’t happen. Join the Paleontological…
From The History Guy. How often do we have to call out the military to shoot down balloons? More often than you might think. Some notable stories of balloons gone rogue, drawing military and/or police responses, deserve to be remembered. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based…
From The History Guy. Use my link to install Angry Birds Friends for FREE: https://rov.io/historyguy and enjoy popping those piggies!” On August 18, 1961 the Santa Cruz California Sentinel reported a startling event: “Residents, especially in the pleasure point and Capitola area, were awakened about 3 am today by the rain of birds slamming against…
From The History Guy. Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/HistoryGuy. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Landslide: the Presidency of Herbert Hoover and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection. While there is disagreement over whether the character of Robin Hood is based on a real person, it is clear that…
From The History Guy. The editors of the website "MotorBiscuit" put it simply: “If you’re of a certain age, you remember the days when station wagons filled the roads.” Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain…
From The History Guy. Listen to this episode of the THG Podcast, which posts in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases on podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed for more: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode, The History Guy tells…
From The History Guy. It is January 30th, and 188 years ago today the nation was shocked by the first known assassination attempt on a sitting president of the United States. The attempt by Richard Lawrence on the life of President Andrew Jackson was, in itself, high drama, and his trial one of great attention.…
From The History Guy. The film Tarzan of the Apes was released 105 years ago in 1918. The film represented significant milestones in the film industry, and was emblematic of its times. What’s more, it represents the enduring popularity of a fiction icon that, some say, might actually have been based on a real person.…
From The History Guy. Back in 2021 we brought two kittens, Pocky and Strudel, into our home courtesy the St. Clair County Animal Adoption Center in Belleville Illinois. This leads to the question, when did such shelters originate? Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ Select images via iStock. This is original…
From The History Guy. Check out https://ground.news/historyguy to stay informed on breaking news as it’s happening around the world, compare coverage, and know where your news is coming from. Before motorized vehicles, horses were the backbone of the transportation industry. And so the Great Epizootic of 1872, a horse epidemic in North America, is history…
From The History Guy. Four classic The History Guy episodes about nuclear accidents. 00:00 – B-36 Bomber Nuclear Accident, Albuquerque, 1957 12:00 – 1958 Mars Bluff Nuclear Bomb Incident 24:40 – Operation Chrome Dome and the Palomares Incident 38:03 – 1980 Damascus Titan II Explosion, Arkansas Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheHistoryGuy Check out our new community for fans…
From The History Guy. On January 18, 1957, five planes took off from Castle Air Force Base in California on "by far the most colorful and perhaps the most important of all peacetime operations ever undertaken by the United States Air Force.” Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original…
From The History Guy. Listen to this episode of the THG Podcast, which posts in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases on podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed for more: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode, The History Guy tells…
From The History Guy. Today the news is full of reports about things like “bomb cyclones” and “atmospheric rivers,” but as terrifying as these meteorological mouthfuls are, they hardly represent the terror of the 1362 Grote Mandrenke, literally, “the Great Drowning of men.” Support the History Guy and get exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/TheHistoryGuy This is original…
From The History Guy. Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/HistoryGuy. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Landslide: the Presidency of Herbert Hoover and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection. In 1914, Millions of people in German occupied territory in Belgium and France were facing the very real threat of starvation.…
From The History Guy. The history of how what was marketed as the “little carefree car” that was built to be as “indestructible as a Model T" became known as one of the most dangerous cars ever built deserves to be remembered. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original…
From The History Guy. Click this link to make some cash for giving your opinion! https://www.inflcr.co/SHFo7 Thanks YouGov for sponsoring! There were “rebellious” activities in colonial America well before the French and Indian War and the series of governmental acts that would eventually culminate in the American Revolution. The history of the ‘poor potter’ of…
From The History Guy. From the vaults, five classic episodes of the History Guy with weird crimes and criminals. 00:00 – Tommy Fitz’s Perfect Landings 08:30 – The Fabulous Fraud from Brooklyn 14:19 – Georg Gärtner, the last German POW in America. 27:23 – Daniel Sickles’ Temporary Insanity 39:50 – Soapy Smith: A Very Bad…
From The History Guy. In the midst of the Battle of the Bulge, the US 17th Airborne division had their first taste of battle near the village of Flamierge, Belgium, in a little known place called “Dead Man’s Ridge." Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on…