Podcast Episodes

Episode 496: The Trial of Louis XVI

Season 1 Episode 496

The trial of Louis XVI ends with the last Bourbon monarch being led to the guillotine. The reaction of the rest of Europe is not good. Hence, the War…

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Episode 495: The Fall of the King

Season 1 Episode 495

Europe finally reacts to the French Revolution, and a startling discovery sets in motion events which will condemn Louis XVI to death.

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Episode 494: Saint-Dominque

Season 1 Episode 494

Saint-Dominque, soon to be Haiti, erupts in its own revolution.

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5 months ago

Episode 493: The Flight of the Royals

Season 1 Episode 493

Louis XVI makes a break for it. France passes a new Constitution into law. And the storm clouds continue to grow around the French Revolution.

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5 months ago

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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5 months, 1 week 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…

5 months, 1 week ago

Episode 491: The Women's March

Season 1 Episode 491

Bread shortages force the Revolution's hand.

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5 months, 2 weeks 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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5 months, 3 weeks ago

War and Power: Who Wins Wars—and Why

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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…

5 months, 3 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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5 months, 4 weeks ago