The French History Podcast

My talk for the Intelligent Speech Conference 2020. Let's talk camels! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A discussion with Iain MacGregor about the French Occupation in West Berlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an age of violence, the penitent flee from society and draw closer to God and each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Steve Shone talks about the fantastical life of a radical revolutionary woman and her impact on world feminism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an age of anxiety early Christians developed cults to their saints. Power, politics and the fear of God remake Gaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hear about the last saints of Gaul before the Frankish invasion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Western Roman Empire falls. Gaul is no more, & three kingdoms vie to replace it. Antiquity ends & Clovis turns the land into the first great medieval kingdom: Francia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Scourge of God descends upon Gaul. Aetius must rally what remains of Western Rome and unite with his nemesis Theodoric of the Visigoths. Together, they will fight Western Rome’s last great battle against Attila and his Huns.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gaul is a battleground & Rome is on the retreat. The Visigoths, Burgundians and Franks vie for supremacy while Gauls are trapped in between them...yet maybe 'Barbaria' isn't as bad as it seems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Huns march westward, pushing uncountable numbers of Germans towards Rome. The Romanized Franks have to defend Gaul while the empire crumbles. But the more successful the Franks are the more they realize Rome needs them more than they need it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this interview with Dr. Tom Chaffin, we discuss his new book Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations. We talk about Lafayette and Jefferson's work in founding America, writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and their long friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christianity finally comes center-stage! During the 2nd-3rd centuries Gaul gets a host of saints and miracles and becomes an important part of the Christian world. But state persecutions and heresy threaten the faithful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What was life like for ordinary people in 4th century Gallia? In this episode we're covering men, women, children, the family, culture, entertainment, language, medicine, the environment, food, barbarians & everything else that made up the lives of the Gauls during the Late Roman Empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode, I interview Dr. Robin Mitchell on her new book Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. We talk about three African women, Ourika, Sarah Baartmann and Jeanne Duval, and how each women reflected and embodied different anxieties felt by France in its tumultuous 19th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Galerius rules from the East and Constantine fears for his life. One night the young man flees to Gaul to rejoin his father in the west. When Constantius dies his son becomes emperor. In the chaos that follows the ambitious man looks to the heavens and receives divine revelation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The year is 285. Diocletian is the undisputed master of a Roman world in tatters. Gaul has fallen completely apart as its own people ravage the land looking for food while German hordes poor in. Diocleatian sends two emperors to save Gaul, but even if they can bring peace it will never be the same as Celtic Gaul declines and the Franks rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

Rome is falling apart. It's being invaded along its entire northern and eastern borders. Emperors are assassinated. Usurper generals rise up every year to seize power. Plague devastates the empire. Out of this chaos a Gallic military commander decides to create a new Celtic empire and revive a free Gaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rome ascends to unprecedented glory by the time of Antoninus Pius. Then the unthinkable happens and the ancient superpower is hit with one disaster after another. Plague, civil war and invasion bring the glorious empire to its knees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Cameron Zinsou talks about the tense waiting period known as 'The Phoney War.' Zinsou argues that despite no large-scale military engagements occuring a whole lot happened. French society had to reorganize for total war and that the political, social and military changes presaged the occupation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nearly two centuries of Gallia's history go missing. What happened to the records and what happened in Gallia? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Haitian Revolution has often been described as an oddity that had little impact on the world. Since then, historians have challenged this narrative and argue that Haiti's victory over France had a huge impact on the Atlantic World. Dr. Matthew Clavin of the University of Houston argues that the Haitian Revolution had an enormous impact on the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

The Year of the Four Emperors in the Roman Empire brings chaos and war. In Gallia, three people claim divinity as they revolt against the empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Sarah K. Miles tells the fascinating story of how radical bookseller François Maspero spread revolutionary anti-colonial ideas from the left bank of the Seine. Listen as Ms. Miles recounts how Maspero evaded government sensors, created networks of subversives across the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another revolt convinces Tiberius and later Claudius that the only way to civilize Gallia is to rid it of its druids. Gallia survives the madness of Caligula and then unites with Hispania to overthrow Nero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Catherine Kudlick of San Francisco State University talks about a blind community in 19th century Paris. Furthermore, she talks about disability, disease and what those meant in French history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices