History is best understood through the people who spend their lives inside it.

History Shorts: Conversations is a weekly long-form interview series hosted by Peter Zablocki — historian, professor, and author — featuring the writers, filmmakers, educators, and scholars who have dedicated their careers to bringing the past to life.

Each episode is an unhurried, in-depth conversation — the kind that goes beyond the book jacket and the press release and gets at the real questions: Why does this story matter? What does history ask of us? And what happens when we finally get it right?

With nearly 100 episodes in the archive and a guest roster that includes Pulitzer Prize winners, bestselling authors, and some of the most influential history communicators in the world, History Shorts: Conversations has become a respected long-form history interview series in podcasting.