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An Impossible Interview IV: Aaron Sibarium, The Washington Free Beacon
The Impossible Interviews series is back with a different, but still special conversation I had with the amazingly talented and insightful Aaron Sibarium. Aaron is an associate editor over at the Was…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Infinitesimal Impossibilities 02: The Mad Madame of New Orleans
History Impossible is back sooner than some may have anticipated for another installment of the Infinitesimal Impossibilities series, this time recorded in the spirit (and in the last hours) of Hallo…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Pandemic: Rendering a Hue and Cry
This episode is dedicated to Franco Bolelli.
Since it's the year of our lord 2020, it was only inevitable that we'd talk about pandemics on History Impossible.
What follows is an exploration of not jus…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
BONUS! Ripples of Impossible History (on Fire): Confucius
As many of you are aware, I was recently featured among many other, far more talented history podcasters on Daniele Bolelli's History on Fire podcast in which we all discussed various figures and eve…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Infinitesimal Impossibilities 01: The First Submarine
As History Impossible reaches its two year mark and the episodes get longer and longer, I figured that now was the time to do something different, namely to add a new show to the History Impossible f…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
A Very British Samurai (Assimilation)
Japan in the 16th and 17th century was going through profound changes, not least of which being the ongoing civil war that had been ripping it apart for over a century, with warlord fighting warlord …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
The Devil Soldier and His Ever Victorious Army (Approbation)
In the mid-19th century, as one country in the West was on its way toward the most famous civil war, another country in the East was in the grips of one far larger and more significant than any that …
Published on 5 years ago
An Impossible Interview III: JD Huitt, History Underground
In this newest entry into the Impossible Interview series, I had a chance to sit down (via Zoom) with the incredibly talented and generous-with-his time J.D. Huitt, the brains behind and face of Hist…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
An Impossible Pop Quiz: Blood, Bardos, Bullets, and Buddhism
Surprise!
In light of the current quarantine in which becoming starved for content is actually a very real possibility, as well as a way to say thank you to all of you for your patience as I toiled aw…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Blood, Bardos, Bullets, and Buddhism (Appropriation)
Let's set the stage:
The most explosive event of the 20th century has just occurred and it has nothing to do with Nazis or atomic bombs or American blue jeans. In 1917, the world's largest terrestrial…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago