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Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la vie intellectuelle française est dominée par deux figures majeures : Jean-Paul Sartre et Raymond Aron. Amis dans leur jeunesse, ils deviennent progressivement les symboles de deux visions du monde profondément opposées.Tout commence ...  Show more

Derrière l’image d’un régime brutal et militarisé, l’Allemagne nazie a aussi développé une politique sociale étonnamment ambitieuse… dont l’un des outils les plus spectaculaires fut le tourisme de masse. Au cœur de ce dispositif : le programme “Kraft durch Freude”, littéralement ...  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