Episodes

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 which determines Rome's fate. Meanwhile, Caesar's divide and conquer tactics...

Caesar begins the year by invading Britannia and harassing Belgica. Meanwhile Celtica rises up and the Gauls surround two Roman armies. With doom approaching heroes are born as Vorenus and Pullo make an epic last stand.

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 done taking orders from the Papacy. What followed was centuries of …

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 Caesar will have to go where no Roman ever has and become more than a …

After conquering Celtica, Caesar engages in two years of brutal war against the Belgae who are determined to maintain their freedom.

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.

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 explains why there's hope for a complete restoration after the April 15, 2019 f...

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 defeat a German king before he can bring over an overwhelming number of warrio...

A crisis in Gaul sparks a war between civilizations a millenia in the making.

A conversation with renowned scholar Dr. Sarah Fishman on how French women under Vichy, who were among the most oppressed in the developed world, turned France into the most egalitarian major country on Earth.

In this special episode, we examine the hardships, triumphs and transformation that women underwent in WWI while exploring why French women didn't receive the same rights as their British counterparts.

Ancient historian Darah Vann Orr explains how modern feminist historians are re-evaluating Roman culture in the wake of the #MeToo era.

Where we tell the story of the Gallic kingdoms before the Roman conquest.

Anatolian Greeks establish an empire in Southern Gaul around Masallia, or modern-day Marseille.

A lover's quarrel spirals out of control and leads to a war between Rome and the Gauls.

The Celts are moving westward and bringing with them their culture, religion and art to France.

The tools and minds of the early French undergo a tremendous leap forward.

The Indo-Europeans are on the move and heading to Western Europe, bringing with them war, horses and apocalypse.

Film studies expert Lyz Renshaw takes us through the first forty years of French cinema history and gives us a list of titles to add to our Netflix queues.

In this episode we will examine the megalithic structures of France, which are among the oldest still-standing buildings in the world.

Long before there were people, France was a frozen tundra. This episode looks at France from 3 million years ago until the first humans arrived.

In this first episode I introduce myself, the podcast and the fascinating journey we're about to take.