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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...

On today’s episode, we talk about an incredibly deadly creature, which has determined the course of nearly all human history just by existin...

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...

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...

On today’s episode we talk about the first commercially successful ‘plastic’, the beginning of the plastic revolution that has so altered hu...

On today’s episode, we talk about a soviet submarine disaster in the Atlantic, which averted potentially disastrous outcomes only by the her...

On today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empire...

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...

On today’s episode we talk about one of the most fraught elections in American history, where violence, initmidation and outright fraud prec...

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...

On today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

On today’s episode, we talk about a little-remembered presidential visit in the wake of Pearl Harbor - Christmas, 1941, when Winston Churchi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On today’s podcast we talk about the year 1983 - called by some “the most dangerous year” in modern history. In the fall of that year, Weste...

On today’s episode, we talk about one of the most famous battle in Roman history, when 50,000 Romans were killed in a single day. How would...

On today’s episode, we talk about one of the largest naval battles in history, Leyte Gulf, and the task group that was never created: Task F...

Today we discuss one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike Europe in recorded history, an earthquake which knocked down Lisbon in a sin...

On today’s episode, we tackle a forgotten empire that once ruled the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, and that once ranked with the likes of...

On today’s episode we talk about one of the most important naval events in modern history: the pivotal battle of Tsushima, fought during the...

On today’s episode, we talk about Calendars - specificall the Gregorian Calendar, and how and why it became the calendar we all use today. W...

On today’s episode, we visit one of the most significant maritime accidents of the middle ages, when William Adelin, grandson of William the...

On today’s episode, we travel to 1943, and one of the earliest battles American soldiers fought with Nazi Germany, in the mountainous region...

On today’s episode of the History Guy Podcast, we talk about one of the most important parts of the Columbian exchange, and possibly the rea...

On today’s episode we tackle the counterfactuals of some of the most popular peoples in history: The Vikings. In the tenth century norse col...

On this special, 100th episode of The History Guy Podcast, we head back to the 1800s and the beginning of America’s expansion into the Rocky...

On today’s episode, we talk about the development of one of some of teh most important communication technologies in history, from the teleg...

Ivan the Terrible transformed Russia during his rule, but in a fit of insanity, he seems to have killed his eldest son and heir, leaving the...

On today’s episode, we talk about one of the most talked about battles in European History: The 732 battle of Tours. Variously called one of...

On today’s episode, we talk about cats. While today they are usually just pets, they played a vital role in the history of civilization. So...

On today’s episode, we travel to the lofty heights of the Andes, where in the early 1500s Spanish under Francisco Pizarro came across the In...

On today’s episode, we journey back to the fourth century BC on the shores of an Indian river, where an army that had set out from Macedon,...

On today’s episode, we discuss the impacts of the largest volcanic eruption in human history - the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, which wou...

On today’s episode, we talk about the series of events that connect several duels in the life of Alexander Hamilton, and about how the histo...

Welcome to the second episode of our new take on the podcast: Counterfactuals. This is part 2 of our season opener, talking about what might...

In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt was involved in a carriage accident which nearly killed him. In 1853, President-Elect Franklin Pierce watched hs so...

On today’s episode the History Guy tells the story of Butch Cassidy and the Sudnance Kid, examining the long history to figure out what we k...

On today’s episode, the History Guy tells two stories of dental health, examining humanities long relationship with our teeth. First, he tel...

On today’s episode, the History Guy tells two stories of the forgotten naval war of the American civil war. First, he talks about the CSS Al...

On today’s episode, The History Guy tells two stories about important inventions that have become part of the foundation of modern life. Fir...

On today’s episode, the History Guy tells two stories of how hurricanes affected history in dramatic ways. First he tells the story of the i...

On today’s episode, The History Guy tells two stories of volcanic eruptions, and the dramatic ways these eruptions affected human history. F...

On today’s episode, The History Guy tells three stories of movie stars and their service during World War II. First he tells the story of He...

The History Guy tells two stories of the age of exploration, and explorers whose names you likely know, but whose stories you might not. Fir...