Episodes

Dr. Tamara Chaplin discusses the modern history of lesbians in France. Click here for Adventure Travel inspiration from our friends at Explore Worldwide. Don’t Just Travel, Explore.

Philippe II wins one of the most important battles in European history.

Dr. Terrence Peterson talks about how the Algerian War led to modern counterinsurgency. Click here for Adventure Travel inspiration from our friends at Explore Worldwide. Don’t Just Travel, Explore.

Nancy Goldstone talks all about two rival empresses and how they reshaped Europe. Click here for Adventure Travel inspiration from our friends at Explore Worldwide. Don’t Just Travel, Explore.

Dr. Sue Peabody tells the incredible story of a man who spent decades fighting for his freedom in France's Indian Ocean World. Click here for Adventure Travel inspiration from our friends at Explore Worldwide. Don’t Just Travel, Explore.

Philippe II goes to war with England's King John, uniting France and destroying the Angevin Empire. Click here for Adventure Travel inspiration from our friends at Explore Worldwide. Don’t Just Travel, Explore.

Philippe II wars with Richard the Lionheart for control of France. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Philippe II and Richard the Lionheart go on Crusade, though they might spend more time fighting each other than the enemies of God.

Philippe Auguste ascends to the throne of France. Half of his kingdom was in the hands of the Angevins. From humble beginnings, Philippe becomes the greatest of all the Capetian monarchs. The French History Podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp

Denis Ledoux talks all about the trasnformation of French settlers of Canada from French to French-Canadians, then French-Americans with anecdotes from his own life as a Frenchie.

A prince groomed for the church ends up on the throne. Louis VII will war across France and lead the Second Crusade, but is he up to the challenge?

Dr. Nina Studer talks about the absinthe craze and peril in France from the 1830s to its ban in 1915.

Dr. Micah Alpaugh talks about how all of France and its colonies participated in the French Revolution.

Dr. Stephanie Brown talks about a missing painting connected to the great Paul Gauguin and how it was found.

Documentarian David Ritter talks about the ethnic French population in modern Haiti.

Scholar and popular author C.J. Adrien talks about a little-known island off the coast of West France & how it remade the Viking world.

Louis VI defies a king, an emperor and his barbaric vassals to assert his right to rule.

A look at 20th century cinema by Arab immigrants to France.

Terrorists, anarchists and Irishmen! Government surveillance transitions from the masses to subversive individuals.

The history of mass surveillance in France and Britain from the French Revolution until the 1880s.

Part 1 of 3 looking at the history of government surveillance in France and Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War I

An epic 9-hour long history of the First Crusade

A retrospective on an event that changed human history.

The Holy War conquers the Holy Land. Caught between an empire and a caliphate, the lords forge their own path.