Counterfactuals - War, Mosquitoes, and Human History
On today’s episode, we talk about an incredibly deadly creature, which has determined the course of nearly all human history just by existin...
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If you love history, this is the podcast for you! Stories of forgotten history, presented by Josh Geiger with Lance Geiger, The History Guy, from the hit YouTube channel The History Guy: His...
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20 of 131 episodesCounterfactuals: Sticky History of Duct Tape
On today’s episode, we talk about something that has held together history, literally. Even though there’s probably a roll in just about eve...
Counterfactuals: Japan's Turning Point at Shimonoseki Straits
On today’s episode, we talk about the USS Wyoming and the 1863 battle of the Shiminoseki Straits - a seemingly minor event overshadowed by t...
Counterfactuals: The Plastic Revolution
On today’s episode we talk about the first commercially successful ‘plastic’, the beginning of the plastic revolution that has so altered hu...
Counterfactuals: Nuclear Disaster Aboard K-219
On today’s episode, we talk about a soviet submarine disaster in the Atlantic, which averted potentially disastrous outcomes only by the her...
Counterfactuals: Samoan Crisis of 1889
On today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empire...
Counterfactuals: Wine Extinction
On today's episode, we discuss the Blight that nearly wiped out wine, and how wine and indeed the world might be different if it had unfolde...
Counterfactuals: The Sensational 1876 Election
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most fraught elections in American history, where violence, initmidation and outright fraud prec...
Counterfactuals: The Mutiny That Almost Lost the Revolution
On today’s episode, we talk about the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line on New Years Day, 1781, and how it might have altered the trajectory o...
Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge
On today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against...
Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain
On today’s episode we talk about what is often called the last invasion of mainland Britain - a disastrous and almost farcical series of blu...
Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
Today we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.
Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
On today’s episode, we talk about some of the first steel-hulled ships the United States ever built, and how those first few ships might hav...
Counterfactuals: The Three Kingdoms - or not?
On today’s episode, we venture to Asia to talk about a battle that determined the course of Chinese history, and that has become such an int...
Counterfactuals: Just How Foundational IS Concrete?
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most ubiquitous human creations in the modern world: Concrete. What would the modern world look...
Counterfactuals: Roosevelt and Churchill at Christmas, 1941
On today’s episode, we talk about a little-remembered presidential visit in the wake of Pearl Harbor - Christmas, 1941, when Winston Churchi...
Counterfacutals: WWI and The Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Today we talk about a little remembered battle that could have been a turning point in the First World War - a battle between the German Hig...
Counterfactuals: Confederate Espionage
On today’s episode we talk about the little remembered espionage side of the civil war, particularly the CSA’s more outlandish ideas to take...
Counterfactuals: The Passenger Pigeon's World
On today’s episode we talk about a bird that was once so numerous that Americans thought it would be impossible to kill them all. Until, sud...
Counterfactuals: Did Ketchup Save the World?
On today’s episode we talk about the incredible popularity and influence of an odd product: Ketchup. What would the world be like without it...
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