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15 – Fate Meets Folly
It's 53 BCE and Marcus Licinius Crassus is tired of watching Pompey and Caesar take all the glory. Crassus raises an army to invade Persia, a gambit …
6 years, 10 months ago
14 – A Year of Heroes: Lucius Vorenus, Titus Pullo and Vertico the Gaul
Caesar begins the year by invading Britannia and harassing Belgica. Meanwhile Celtica rises up and the Gauls surround two Roman armies. With doom app…
6 years, 11 months ago
Between Throne and Altar: French Kings Versus the Papacy with Quentin Adams
The fall of Rome meant the rise of the Vatican as Europe broke up into small feudal states. But when France emerged as a major nation its kings were …
6 years, 11 months ago
13 – The End of the World and Beyond: Caesar’s Invasions of Germania and Britannia
Caesar's devastation of the Belgae opens up Gaul to a German invasion to the east. To the north, Britannia unsettles Gaul. To solve both problems Cae…
6 years, 11 months ago
12 – Belgica: Between Caesar and Germania
After conquering Celtica, Caesar engages in two years of brutal war against the Belgae who are determined to maintain their freedom.
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7 years ago
France and America’s Cold War with Dr. Robert Buzzanco
One of America's leading scholars on the Vietnam War talks about how France and the US clashed during the Cold War, largely over Indochina.
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7 years ago
11 – The War Begins
A migrating wave of Celts from Switzerland gives Caesar the opportunity to invade Gaul. But things aren't so simple; to conquer Gaul he'll have to de…
7 years ago
Notre Dame de Paris
Ph.D candidate Gary Girod tells Notre Dame's fascinating history from the first stones laid for the Roman temple to Jupiter, up until present and exp…
7 years ago
10 – Destiny Meets Opportunity
A crisis in Gaul sparks a war between civilizations a millenia in the making.
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7 years, 1 month ago
From Vichy to Alizée: Making The Modern French Woman with Dr. Sarah Fishman
A conversation with renowned scholar Dr. Sarah Fishman on how French women under Vichy, who were among the most oppressed in the developed world, tur…
7 years, 1 month ago