Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
On today’s episode, we talk about some of the first steel-hulled ships the United States ever built, and how those first few ships might have set the tone for the entire 20th century.
21 Okt 20251h 3min
Counterfactuals: The Three Kingdoms - or not?
On today’s episode, we venture to Asia to talk about a battle that determined the course of Chinese history, and that has become such an integral part of Chinese historical mythology that it is someti...
7 Okt 20251h 5min
Counterfactuals: Just How Foundational IS Concrete?
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most ubiquitous human creations in the modern world: Concrete. What would the modern world look like without this grey material we all take for granted?
24 Sep 20251h 2min
Counterfactuals: Roosevelt and Churchill at Christmas, 1941
On today’s episode, we talk about a little-remembered presidential visit in the wake of Pearl Harbor - Christmas, 1941, when Winston Churchill risked the U-boats of the Atlantic to visit his new allie...
9 Sep 20251h
Counterfacutals: WWI and The Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Today we talk about a little remembered battle that could have been a turning point in the First World War - a battle between the German High Seas fleet and the Russian Baltic fleet in the Gulf of Rig...
26 Aug 20251h 6min
Counterfactuals: Confederate Espionage
On today’s episode we talk about the little remembered espionage side of the civil war, particularly the CSA’s more outlandish ideas to take the war to the Union. And of course, we talk about what the...
12 Aug 20251h 5min
Counterfactuals: The Passenger Pigeon's World
On today’s episode we talk about a bird that was once so numerous that Americans thought it would be impossible to kill them all. Until, suddenly, they did. What might the world look like if the passe...
29 Jul 20251h 4min
Counterfactuals: Did Ketchup Save the World?
On today’s episode we talk about the incredible popularity and influence of an odd product: Ketchup. What would the world be like without it?
15 Jul 20251h 4min
