
History Impossible
Alexander von Sternberg
History Impossible covers some of the less-known, strange, and supposedly impossible events, people, and ideologies throughout history that are all nonetheless true. The settings a...
Episode list
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March 25, 2025
2 hr 53 min
Diplomacy on the Eastern Border (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons, Jack Johannson, & Zack Twamley)
I was recently invited to join in a panel discussion with three podcasting greats and people I consider friends—that is, The Eastern Border’s Kristaps Andrejsons, the Secret Police...
moreMarch 14, 2025
1 hr 0 min
The Slave Who Would Be a Spy (w/ Isaac Willour)
Slavery is often known as the United States’ original sin, and for good reason. Much of our perceptions of it are informed both by the Civil War’s cause and outcome, and the contra...
moreMarch 7, 2025
1 hr 41 min
The Spirit of the American West (w/ David McGarry)
The American West (or the “Wild West” as it’s still sometimes known) is arguably one of the defining features of the United States’ history and culture, if not the most defining fe...
moreFebruary 28, 2025
56 min
A Bug in the Software
Hey everyone, happy to present to all of you fine people with a brief bonus, this time adapting my recent historiographical essay that I had written my first semester in graduate s...
moreFebruary 13, 2025
1 hr 50 min
Mother's Wrath, Mankind's Bargain (The Los Angeles Fires of 2025)
In this episode of History Impossible inaugurating 2025 and the sixth anniversary of the show, we will be looking at the Los Angeles Fires of 2025 but from an extended, historical,...
moreDecember 30, 2024
1 hr 31 min
A Revulsion of Feeling: The Arab Revolt and Collective Identity
This is the first installment of something that doesn’t really have a name; the Grad School Files? That sounds a little like a bad Netflix show. I’ll take suggestions, but in the m...
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