Counterfactuals: 1527 Sack of Rome
On today’s episode, we talk about an event often thought to have ended the “High Renaissance” period: the sack of Rome by a mutinous conting...
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20 of 137 episodesCounterfactuals: Rabies
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understa...
Counterfactuals: Going Up? - Elevators
On today’s episode we talk about an unsung hero of the modern age: the elevator. Without them, the world wouldn’t be the same.
Counterfactuals: John Hay and the 20th Century
On today’s episode we talk about a man whose influence on the trajectory of American history is undeniable and pervasive, but whose name you...
Counterfactuals: Paardeberg - Canada's Most Important Battle?
On today’s episode we talk about a pivotal battle in a poorly remembered war: The battle of Paardeberg in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The war...
Counterfactuals - Battle of Westport
On today’s episode, we talk about a little remembered campaign of the Civil War fought west of the Mississippi, when a former Missouri gover...
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...
Counterfactuals: 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...