As generals, family, and old allies fought to claim his legacy, one man rose above the rest: Ptolemy, who would seize both Alexander’s corpse and his destiny. From the Partition of Babylon to the...
2025-11-14 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Think escape rooms are just puzzles and locks? Think again! Modern escape rooms are masterclasses in psychology and game design. They use color, lighting, memory tricks, and st...
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Best Day in History!
Best Days in History are in plentiful supply around the world and we wanna hear your most bizarr...
2025-11-03 17:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
When Alexander the Great marched into Egypt, he was hailed not as an invader but as a liberator — a foreign king crowned Pharaoh. But after his death, one of his generals would seize more than ju...
2025-10-31 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Our latest Extra History Complete is our Grigori Rasputin Series! Which has been updated with all your comments and corrections from our lies video AND a special Ra Ra...
2025-10-24 17:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for our Extra History poll! Where you get to vote on what our next "Extra History...
2025-10-23 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
📜 Welcome, Extra Historians to our American Mass Deportation, Extra Context video! Where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our series. With questi...
2025-10-21 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
By the summer of 1776, the Revolution seemed won, until a hundred British ships darkened New York’s horizon. What followed was the first great test of George Washington’s army in the Battle of ...
2025-10-17 17:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Think escape rooms are just puzzles and locks? Think again! Modern escape rooms are masterclasses in psychology and game design. They use color, lighting, memory tricks, and storytelling to turn YO...
2025-10-17 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 1950s, the U.S. launched Operation Wetback—a mass deportation campaign framed as a national security response during the Cold War. What began as a supposed crackdown on undocumented migrat...
2025-10-03 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Weird Dudes in History! Weird Dudes in History are in plentiful supply around the w
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts th...
2025-10-01 17:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Extra Historians,
Our latest Extra History Complete is our 1918 Flu Pandemic Series. Which has been updated with all your comments and corrections from our lies episode.
We hope y...
2025-09-26 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for our Extra History poll! Where you get to vote on what our next "Extra History...
2025-09-23 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Want to design a game but don’t know where to start? In this video, we turn constraints into creative fuel! You’ll learn how to set design goals, build a broad framework, craft a theme-driven c...
2025-09-23 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In the mid-1800s, Japan was forced open to the world. Sparking a revolution of rapid industrialization and the rise of the zaibatsu megacorps. From samurai to cyberpunk, we're going to go over how ...
2025-09-23 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we trace the deeper history, from families whose roots predated the U.S.–Mexico border, to the cycles of migrant labor that fueled both nations’ economies. We’ll see how the ...
2025-09-19 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I wanted to fill you all in on a discussion the EH crew and I have been having. After the voting concluded on our “Historical Tyrants" series and Rob began his r...
2025-09-11 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this series, we’re digging into the U.S. government’s early immigration crackdowns: from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, to the Chinese Exclusion Act, to raids on Mexican-American commu...
2025-09-05 17:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts theme is Best Pranks in History! Best Pranks in History are in plentiful supply around the w
Hello Historians, our next Extra History Shorts th...
2025-09-01 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Extra Historians,
Our latest Extra History Complete is our Japanese Militarism Series! Which has been updated with all your comments and corrections from our lies series.
We hope...
2025-08-29 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
📜 Welcome, Extra Historians to our President Mckinley Lies video! Where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our series. With questions like, did Mck...
2025-08-26 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for our Extra History poll! Where you get to vote on what our next "Extra History...
2025-08-25 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Who really fired the first shot at Lexington? 🔫⚖️ Was it the British Army, marching to seize colonial supplies? Or the Lexington militia, standing their ground? Both sides swore the other pu...
2025-08-22 17:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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As foreign intervention, corporate control, and executive overreach became normalized, McKinley faced a growing wave of criticism—setting the stage for his fateful encounter at the 1901 Pan-Ameri...
2025-08-08 17:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Historians, our next Extra History series theme is Historical Tyrants.
They assumed emergency powers, declared themselves gods, and fiddled while Rome burned (okay, pro...
2025-08-05 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Extra Historians,
Our latest Extra History Complete is our End of the Samurai series! Which has been updated with all your comments and corrections from our lies series and has even ins...
2025-08-02 01:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Three years ago, we talked about how the pandemic threatened the board game industry but now, tariffs, buyouts, and bad business practices are doing the damage. In this video, we will break down ho...
2025-07-31 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for our Extra History poll! Where you get to vote on what our next "Extra History Sho...
2025-07-29 17:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
William McKinley didn’t plan on building an empire, but he did. From the annexation of Hawaii to a “little war” with Spain, McKinley’s first term transformed the U.S. into a global power. B...
2025-07-25 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post