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Episode 492: Bread and the Church
Season 1 Episode 492
Riots in Paris provoke unrest, while in the countryside French peasants recoil at attacks upon the Catholic Church.
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2 months ago
Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
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In his own day, the ancient philosopher Diogenes the Cynic had a reputation for eccentricity, heckling his fellow philosophers in the mar…
2 months ago
Episode 491: The Women's March
Season 1 Episode 491
Bread shortages force the Revolution's hand.
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2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 490: The Fall of the Bastille
Season 1 Episode 490
The French Revolution gets serious as the people of Paris rise up and storm the Bastille.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why
Season 1
In this bonus interview, I sit down with Phillips Payson O'Brien and we discuss his latest book: War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why.
For nearly two…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 489: The Estates-General
Season 1 Episode 489
An oath on a tennis court, of all things, sparks the French Revolution.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 488: The Flood
Season 1 Episode 488
Efforts to reform France under Louis XV and Louis XVI fail, plunging the kingdom into the flood of revolution.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War
Today I sit down with historian Michael Livingston and talk about one of my favorite subjects: the Hundred Years War.
Henry V at Agincourt. Edward III…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 487: The Old Regime
Season 1 Episode 487
Also known as the Ancien Regimé, the system of France going into the revolution was maddeningly complex and, seemingly, designed to fail.
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3 months ago
Episode 486: The Young Republic
Season 1 Episode 486
The Americans won their independence, but what would they do with it?
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3 months, 1 week ago