The History Guy

By Lance and Josh Geiger

If you love history, this is the podcast for you! Stories of forgotten history, presented by Josh Geiger with Lance Geiger, The History Guy, from the hit YouTube channel The History Guy: History Deser... more

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The podcast currently has 124 episodes available.

The History Guy episodes:

January 13, 2026 Counterfactuals: The Sensational 1876 Election
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most fraught elections in American history, where violence, initmidation and outright fraud precipitated a constitutional crisis - the 1876 election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
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1h 2min
December 30, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Mutiny That Almost Lost the Revolution
On today’s episode, we talk about the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line on New Years Day, 1781, and how it might have altered the trajectory of the American Revolution, and everything after.
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1h 5min
December 16, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge
On today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against veteran German divisions, and what the chances were that the Reich could have turned the tide in 1944.
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1h 8min
December 02, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain
On today’s episode we talk about what is often called the last invasion of mainland Britain - a disastrous and almost farcical series of blunders that ended in abject disaster. But what if it didn’t?
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1h 2min
November 18, 2025 Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
Today we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.
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1h 10min
October 21, 2025 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.
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1h 4min
October 07, 2025 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 sometimes difficult to sort fact from fiction. What might have changed if the battle went a different way?
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1h 6min
September 24, 2025 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?
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1h 3min
September 09, 2025 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 allies in the White House.
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1h 1min
August 26, 2025 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 Riga.
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1h 7min

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