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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 Kristap…
1 year, 3 months ago
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 ca…
1 year, 4 months ago
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 cultu…
1 year, 4 months ago
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 …
1 year, 4 months ago
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 bu…
1 year, 5 months ago
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…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Question of Genocide
This episode of History Impossible is an adaptation of the historical polemic I wrote on the one-year anniversary of October 7th, 2023, examining the…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Original Donald Trump (Throwback Thursday!)
Hello all, hope you are doing well.
For a long time, I was skeptical of doing “re-runs” of History Impossible’s earlier episodes. I didn’t think that …
1 year, 8 months ago
Revisionism and Misplaced Empathy: The Darryl Cooper - Tucker Carlson Situation
I have, for many years, recommended Darryl Cooper’s hit podcast Martyr Made to the relative handful of people kind enough to listen to my own show an…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Elites Who Would Play God (w/ CJ Killmer of Dangerous History)
In this newest special episode of History Impossible, I sat down to discuss a super-light topic, one not fraught with intense controversy and tragedy…
1 year, 10 months ago