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The History Guy
Hosted by Lance and Josh Geiger · EN
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: History Deserves to be Remembered. Visit the channel here: www.youtube.com/TheHistoryGuyChannel We believe that history does not have to be boring. At its heart, history is storytelling, and we believe that it should be told with passion and genuine love for the material. History might be tragic, it might be comic, but it is the story of who we are, and we should not be afraid to enjoy that story and be moved by it.
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Counterfactuals: John Hay and the 20th Century
2d ago01:03:44Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode we talk about a man whose influence on the trajectory of American history is undeniable and pervasive, but whose name you may never have heard of: John Hay, a secretary to President Lincoln and Secretary of State under Mckinley and Teddy Roosevelt. What might the world be like without him?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Paardeberg - Canada's Most Important Battle?
2w ago00:58:46Tap to summarizeOn 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 would consolidate all of South Africa under British Colonial rule, and radically transform the Canadian military. But what if it didn’t?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals - Battle of Westport
May 501:05:37Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we talk about a little remembered campaign of the Civil War fought west of the Mississippi, when a former Missouri governor attempted to shake things up as hope for the south dwindled. Ultimately it all went wrong - but what if it didn’t?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals - War, Mosquitoes, and Human History
Apr 2101:02:24Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we talk about an incredibly deadly creature, which has determined the course of nearly all human history just by existing: The Mosquito. How has the mosquito determined the course of war, and what wars might have gone differently if it didn’t exist?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Sticky History of Duct Tape
Apr 701:03:35Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we talk about something that has held together history, literally. Even though there’s probably a roll in just about every household in America, we often overlook the utility and ubiquity of duct tape. But what would we do without it?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Japan's Turning Point at Shimonoseki Straits
Mar 2401:00:47Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we talk about the USS Wyoming and the 1863 battle of the Shiminoseki Straits - a seemingly minor event overshadowed by the American Civil War. But this battle might have altered the course of history.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: The Plastic Revolution
Mar 1001:00:03Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode we talk about the first commercially successful ‘plastic’, the beginning of the plastic revolution that has so altered human society. But what if it happened differently?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Nuclear Disaster Aboard K-219
Feb 2401:02:26Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we talk about a soviet submarine disaster in the Atlantic, which averted potentially disastrous outcomes only by the heroism of its crew. But what might have happened if it went differently?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Samoan Crisis of 1889
Feb 1000:55:39Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empires of the United States and Germany in the 1880s. As the crisis came to a head, however, nature put a dramatic end to human ambition. But what if it had gone differently?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Wine Extinction
Jan 2700:59:46Tap to summarizeOn 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 unfolded differently.
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