La conquête de l’Ouest

En avril 1917, les Etats-Unis s'engagent dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Dans le dernier épisode de notre série spéciale "Au cœur de l'Histoire" consacrée au passé américain, Jean des Cars vous raconte pourquoi et comment, après deux ans de débats et d’hésitations, les USA, qui ...  Show more

La guerre de Sécession a duré quatre ans. Quatre ans d'un conflit armé fratricide qui laisse place à un bilan humain catastrophique et à un paysage politique bouleversé. Dans ce troisième épisode de notre série spéciale "Au cœur de l'Histoire" consacrée au passé des Etats-Unis, J ...  Show more

Most Americans are indifferent about the nation's involvement in World War One (under half say the U.S. had a responsibility to fight in the war; one-in-five say it didn't). Many figure it entered the conflict too late to claim much credit, or intervention was discreditable. Some ...  Show more

This episode is fifth in our Alternate History Week series, where I look at famous books of alternate history and discuss why I think their alternate timelines aren't plausible. The Man in the High Castle is Phillip K. Dick's most chilling book and the most famous example of alte ...  Show more

Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today.

We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powha ...

Check out this episode sample from James Early's "Key Battles of American History," In this episode, which wraps up a season devoted to World War 2 in the European Theatre, hosts James Early and Sean McIver follow a long-established Key Battles tradition by giving brief overviews ...  Show more