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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...

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Episode list

65

  • 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...

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  • March 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...

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  • March 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...

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  • February 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...

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  • February 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,...

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  • December 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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