History Impossible

Alexander von Sternberg

EN100 episodes

historysocietyculturetrue crime

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 and time periods range from the Second World War to ancient Japan to medieval Europe, and many more. The show engages with difficult ideas and impossible decisions that were made by human beings like you or me, always to significant effect. It goes out of its way to grant agency to all of its subjects and does its best...

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Episodes (100)

The Flight from Hitler's Shadow: Making Martyrs of Evil

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Apr 16, 20261:45:58failed

Martyrs, Militants, Monetizers, and Madmen (w/ Crackpot History)

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Feb 25, 20262:07:36pending

Color Coded Alliances and Islamism's Useful Suckers (w/ Eli Lake)

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Feb 13, 20261:17:13pending

The Forgotten Green Brown Alliance

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Feb 3, 20261:51:49pending

The Muslim Nazis: Handschar

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Jan 1, 20266:13:17pending

War for the Frontiers of History and America (w/ Jack Henneman of The History of...

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Dec 1, 20252:21:32pending

Salem Possessed (w/ Sebastian Major of Our Fake History)

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Nov 24, 20252:03:00pending

A Storm of Decay: The Salem Witch Trials and the Death of Authority

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Oct 29, 20251:33:40pending

The Uncomfortable Truth About Rhetoric to Violence

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Sep 30, 20251:38:26pending

A Violent Yet Flammable World (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons & Daniele Bolelli)

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Sep 18, 20251:39:32pending

The Protestant World and Christ's Chinese Brother (w/ Daniele Bolelli)

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Sep 9, 20251:24:55pending

A New Great Awakening May Be Nigh

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Aug 27, 20252:00:05pending

Civilization, Moral Masochism, and Wonders of the Visible World (w/ Brendan O'Ne...

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Jul 8, 20252:33:26pending

The Unreality of Realism (w/ Zack Twamley of When Diplomacy Fails)

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Jun 27, 20252:24:20pending

The Butler Boomerang: How American Empire Stopped American Fascism

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Jun 12, 20251:33:18pending

A Velvet Jihad

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May 26, 20251:33:36pending

Trump 2.0: Making America Progressive Again

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Apr 18, 202557:43pending

Diplomacy on the Eastern Border (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons, Jack Johannson, & Zack...

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Mar 25, 20252:53:19pending

The Slave Who Would Be a Spy (w/ Isaac Willour)

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Mar 14, 20251:00:49pending

The Spirit of the American West (w/ David McGarry)

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Mar 7, 20251:41:48pending

A Bug in the Software

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Feb 28, 202556:05pending

Mother's Wrath, Mankind's Bargain (The Los Angeles Fires of 2025)

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Feb 13, 20251:50:57pending

A Revulsion of Feeling: The Arab Revolt and Collective Identity

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Dec 30, 20241:31:15pending

The Question of Genocide

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Dec 6, 20241:04:57pending

The Original Donald Trump (Throwback Thursday!)

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Nov 21, 20242:48:00pending

Revisionism and Misplaced Empathy: The Darryl Cooper - Tucker Carlson Situation

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Oct 2, 20241:24:47pending

The Elites Who Would Play God (w/ CJ Killmer of Dangerous History)

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Sep 9, 20241:34:00pending

The Yasuke Conspiracy (w/ Sebastian Major of Our Fake History)

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Aug 27, 20241:53:46pending

Why Hajj Amin Matters

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Aug 12, 202437:25pending

The Muslim Nazis: The German Voice of Islam

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Jul 22, 20246:02:13pending

Assassinations and Stoic Optimism (w/ The Eastern Border)

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Jul 16, 20241:10:57pending

Questioning Anti-Zionism, Colonizing Gaza, and Revealing Lenin (w/ David Josef V...

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Jun 11, 20242:57:44pending

The Oddsmakers of Armageddon (w/ Benjamin Teitelbaum)

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May 20, 20241:08:12pending

The Soviet Who Saved the World (w/ The Eastern Border)

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Apr 29, 20241:21:53pending

Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Question

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Mar 31, 202455:01pending

Closing the Holocaust Knowledge Gap

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Mar 7, 202446:55pending

The Holocaust Knowledge Gap w/ The History Underground

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Feb 23, 20241:31:04pending

The Perfect Tie: The Election of 1876 (w/ Richard Lim of This American President...

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Feb 5, 20241:04:29pending

Balkan Inferno: The Bosnian Dream

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Dec 30, 20234:05:19pending

Pogroms and Students

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Nov 24, 20231:03:26pending

The Greatest Blunder in Palestinian History w/ Oren Kessler

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Nov 7, 20231:02:21pending

Israel, Gaza, and Three Root Causes

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Oct 31, 20231:47:15pending

Affirmative Action and the Making of a Token

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Oct 10, 20231:15:41pending

Is The Holocaust Unique?

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Sep 19, 202330:06pending

Balkan Inferno: The Heritage of Horror

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Sep 5, 20235:18:58pending

Balkan Inferno: The Yugoslav Vortex

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Jun 27, 20234:17:00pending

Pandemic Addendum: Gutenberg GPT

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Jun 13, 202326:29pending

Rags: The Pure-Hearted Mutt of the Great War

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May 16, 20233:23:17pending

The First Woke President

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May 2, 20232:21:36pending

Pandemic: A Plague Coda

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