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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 5 years, 1 month 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 5 years, 3 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, 4 months 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, 6 months 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
An Impossible Interview II: CJ Killmer
In this inaugural 2020 episode of History Impossible (and on the one year anniversary no less!), I sit down with CJ Killmer, host of the long-running and incredibly well-done Dangerous History Podcas…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
The Prisoner on the River Kwai (Forgiveness)
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic depictions of physical and psychological torture.
A world away from the war raging across the European continent, a completely different theater of warfa…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
The American Executioners (Vengeance)
Content Warning: This episode contains extremely graphic depictions of genocide, torture, and human experimentation.
On April 29th, 1945, one day before Adolf Hitler killed himself, the true evil of t…
Published on 6 years ago
An Impossible Pop Quiz: The Werewolves of the Fourth Reich
It's the end of one era and the beginning of another. With the launch of History Impossible's Patreon, things with the Pop Quiz are different. This will be the final free episode the Pop Quiz series,…
Published on 6 years ago