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Bien avant Marco Polo, un autre voyageur avait déjà traversé une immense partie du monde connu. Son nom était Benjamin de Tudèle. Aujourd’hui presque oublié du grand public, cet aventurier espagnol du XIIe siècle a pourtant réalisé un périple extraordinaire, à une époque où voyag ...  Show more

Quand on pense aux pirates, on imagine souvent des bandes de criminels ivres, violents et totalement désorganisés. Pourtant, la réalité historique est bien plus surprenante. Au XVIIIᵉ siècle, certains équipages pirates avaient mis en place des systèmes sociaux incroyablement mode ...  Show more

Like most 16th-century French peasants, Martin Guerre’s life seemed likely to be lost to history. But a strange series of events took place that would so cement the legend surrounding him that we’re talking about him still today, 450 years later. Learn more about your ad-choices ...  Show more

On this episode of Our American Stories, former marine, Jason Porter, tells the story of meeting his best friend Forrest Johnson and how serving in WWII impacted him; and Richard Gary tells the origin story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and the racial history of Ha ...  Show more

In 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went to war over an issue that seems more likely to spark a feud between Hatfields and McCoys: An American settler shot a Canadian pig that was rooting around his garden. Read the show notes here.

This 2018 episode covers the famed courtier, explorer, historian, Member of Parliament and soldier. He was part of England's defense against the Spanish armada, as well the Tudor conquest of Ireland, some of which was truly horrifying. According to some people, he is now a ghost. ...  Show more