# Professor Simon's History Classroom: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, Professor Simon's History Classroom has 511,000 subscribers, 25,512,639 total views, and 633 videos. It ranks #149,722 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Professor Simon's History Classroom](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Professor Simon's History Classroom is “What Really Happened on the USS Nimitz? A Veteran Recounts the Fire”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are Professor Simon's History Classroom’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jan 9, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 (25 long-form videos and 23 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 52,428. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Mystery of the Indo-Aryan Migration: What We Actually Know” (3,241,412 views, Mar 26, 2026). Least viewed: “History 1123: First Week Requirements You Can't Skip” (579 views, Jan 9, 2026).
- Median length: 4:00 for 25 long-form videos; 1:00 for 23 Shorts.
- In this sample, Professor Simon's History Classroom’s consecutive uploads were a median of 7 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 11 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [What Really Happened on the USS Nimitz? A Veteran Recounts the Fire](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/RZokITp3W3o/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 39,090 | 4:00 | 4.59x |
| [Who were the Top 3 Most Famous Kings of Ancient Mesopotamia? #History #AncientCivilization](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/QuT0Cb29lQU/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 18,052 | 2:13 | 1.92x |
| [How They Built A Lifeboat Out Of Raincoats #history #survival #jailbreak](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/48avH1zpm-Q/) | 2026-10-10 | Short | 7,909 | 2:55 | - |
| [Building a Raft in Prison: The DIY Genius of the 1962 Alcatraz Escape](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/vtlRkXpP5zA/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 7,462 | 7:53 | - |
| [How he survived being shot down twice in Vietnam #veteran #history #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/rY-_pxQ7RF8/) | 2026-10-02 | Short | 13,110 | 2:13 | - |
| [When history flies over a sold-out stadium #WWII #LSUFootball](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/Nn6XMN9lo3Y/) | 2026-09-26 | Short | 5,274 | 0:40 | - |
| [How the Treaty of Versailles Created World War II #history #ww2 #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/RXObUNrpfgE/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 48,427 | 2:00 | 1.29x |
| [What It Was Really Like to Fly in Vietnam \| Veteran Interview](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/NsKWurrsGto/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 19,736 | 31:43 | - |
| [9/11: The Day That Changed Everything (25 Years Later)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/6zm99CqSri4/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 374,703 | 6:20 | 1.7x |
| [How They Actually Removed the Brain in Ancient Egypt #ancienthistory #mummies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/i_lZX7St22o/) | 2026-09-04 | Short | 42,500 | 0:58 | - |
| [The First Bolt-Action Rifle: Why the Dreyse Changed Everything](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/v54qKynvnCw/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 204,001 | 4:37 | 0.93x |
| [Why Did the USS Cyclops Vanish Without a Trace? #maritime #history #unsolved](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/771HNb5X-TU/) | 2026-08-21 | Short | 10,294 | 0:57 | - |
| [Escaping Rural Poverty: Why I Joined The Army in 1958](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/pP03FUBDr-Y/) | 2026-08-14 | Long-form | 218,086 | 3:46 | 0.99x |
| [They Almost Caught D.B. Cooper and Didn't Know It #truecrime #history #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/cbHgIEUsiQI/) | 2026-08-07 | Short | 50,104 | 1:00 | - |
| [What Really Happened to the USS Cyclops?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/xorDiBMSqng/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 390,903 | 5:00 | 2.01x |
| [What Happens If You Eat 3,000 Year Old Honey? #AncientHistory #Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/6AyB_8ZHBnQ/) | 2026-07-24 | Short | 31,996 | 0:55 | 1.02x |
| [Excavating a Ghost: German Tank Found Under 8 Decades of Sand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/u7mMmoU1I3U/) | 2026-07-17 | Long-form | 11,512 | 8:22 | - |
| [Why Did Romans Build Arches After Every Battle? #romanhistory #ancientrome #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/MdLmECn63ro/) | 2026-07-10 | Short | 28,641 | 0:57 | - |
| [Who Created Western Drama? Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides & Aristophanes Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/fpvlI8J_5Ws/) | 2026-07-03 | Long-form | 1,220,763 | 6:59 | - |
| [What Did the Last Neanderthals Leave Behind? #archaeology #ancienthistory #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/L-t0jEJJors/) | 2026-06-26 | Short | 24,474 | 0:52 | - |
| [The Truth About Galileo: Why He Was Really Persecuted](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/HYrnyRkblBs/) | 2026-06-17 | Long-form | 419,187 | 2:46 | - |
| [Why the Huns Were Rome’s Worst Nightmare #shorts #Attila #history](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/83RlSS82-4A/) | 2026-06-11 | Short | 28,629 | 2:09 | - |
| [The Hunnic Invasion: What Really Happened on the Roman Frontier?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/g2PFtky6QRA/) | 2026-06-04 | Long-form | 85,022 | 3:44 | 2.01x |
| [Who is buried in the largest tomb ever found in Macedonia? 🏺 #history #archaeology #mystery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/UqPdMBppBFw/) | 2026-05-27 | Short | 61,086 | 0:52 | - |
| [When I almost crashed Saddam Hussein’s helicopter #military #history #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/y_-mcqK35XY/) | 2026-05-21 | Short | 24,007 | 1:29 | - |
| [I Flew Black Hawks in Iraq After Serving on the USS Nimitz \| Veteran Interview](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/Km8NVh6SGu0/) | 2026-05-20 | Long-form | 7,532 | 50:14 | - |
| [An Indian City of 400,000: Pataliputra's Rise and Fall](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/ack86T0enyo/) | 2026-05-13 | Long-form | 435,124 | 4:00 | 1.32x |
| [How Did the Phoenicians Become the World's First Trade Superpowers #History #Shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/ruyE1iwtf80/) | 2026-05-06 | Short | 37,840 | 2:20 | - |
| [Can We Trust Roman History? Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio Evaluated](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/ADQs8Ht87Og/) | 2026-04-25 | Long-form | 1,902,299 | 3:05 | 9.78x |
| [Why the Phoenicians Were the Ancient World’s Greatest Merchants](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/htBZBGNhAg4/) | 2026-04-23 | Long-form | 221,995 | 3:31 | 1.34x |
| [Why the Columbian Exchange changed everything #history #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/Cc75UbggBuk/) | 2026-04-17 | Short | 54,752 | 1:15 | - |
| [Why I Can't Let Go: A Marine's Struggle After Vietnam](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/mj9JEz7xTcw/) | 2026-04-10 | Long-form | 59,791 | 1:22 | - |
| [Why He Can't Forget Vietnam #veteran #history #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/-FpiX-ykqCM/) | 2026-04-02 | Short | 59,305 | 2:22 | - |
| [The Mystery of the Indo-Aryan Migration: What We Actually Know](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/zRdh2stlolg/) | 2026-03-26 | Long-form | 3,241,412 | 2:46 | 7.68x |
| [Why America’s Greatest Hero Was Actually a Nazi Sympathizer #history #lindbergh #ww2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/JeR_2Gopoqs/) | 2026-03-19 | Short | 10,621 | 0:27 | - |
| [Could Alexander Have Conquered Even More? History's Greatest Military Mind](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/w6OfW2Xbxao/) | 2026-03-12 | Long-form | 167,141 | 1:06 | 6.09x |
| [I Almost Didn't Make It Out of Afghanistan #veteran #combat #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/ft6d46IX6Bs/) | 2026-03-04 | Short | 65,473 | 1:51 | - |
| [Jason McAllister Shares His Most Dangerous Moment as an Army Ranger](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/fBkKymMZ8fE/) | 2026-02-26 | Long-form | 8,684 | 11:42 | - |
| [Sneaking My Wife onto the Ship for Secret Visits! #military #veteran #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/0Q5buqVq3Pw/) | 2026-02-20 | Short | 198,334 | 0:31 | 1.58x |
| [Emperor Theodosius Banned The Olympics - Here's Why? #History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/QGD63GardB8/) | 2026-02-11 | Long-form | 614,729 | 1:34 | - |
| [Why They Called Alaska a Mistake ❄️🤯 #alaskapurchase #history #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/7Btvgtxy9BY/) | 2026-02-07 | Short | 19,906 | 0:14 | - |
| [Could You Survive 872 Days? The Siege of Leningrad #History #WW2 #Survival](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/caqFFGQadTQ/) | 2026-02-04 | Short | 239,617 | 1:15 | 3.62x |
| [Was Selling Alaska Russia's Greatest Failure?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/MuYWXcRS7zs/) | 2026-01-28 | Long-form | 1,651,692 | 3:19 | 71.47x |
| [Marine Recounts His Unexpected Homecoming After Vietnam](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/VXjcJK_4_r4/) | 2026-01-22 | Long-form | 2,346,752 | 2:42 | >100x |
| [When beards were illegal: Peter the Great’s reform #history #russia #shorts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/cWomqla1rzA/) | 2026-01-20 | Short | 232,275 | 1:00 | 7.54x |
| [US vs USSR: The Most Dangerous Moments of the 20th Century](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/tk4XKLptbeM/) | 2026-01-15 | Long-form | 165,403 | 13:06 | 9.78x |
| [History 1113 First Week Requirements You Can't Skip](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/G872NHCCxh8/) | 2026-01-09 | Long-form | 840 | 7:22 | - |
| [History 1123: First Week Requirements You Can't Skip](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@professorsimonshc/videos/-yDwYhEcMyc/) | 2026-01-09 | Long-form | 579 | 10:00 | - |

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