The History Guy
The History Guy
Lance and Josh Geiger
Counterfactuals: Samoan Crisis of 1889
55 minutes Posted Feb 10, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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On today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empires of the United States and Germany in the 1880s. As the crisis came to a head, however, nature put a dramatic end to human ambition. But what if it had gone differently?