1945 : Un agent secret américain écrit à son ...

Regardez une carte de l'Afrique : certaines frontières sont d'une rectitude troublante. On entend souvent que les Européens ont découpé le continent "à la règle" lors de la conférence de Berlin, en 1884 et 1885. Ce n'est ni tout à fait faux, ni tout à fait vrai... C'est plus comp ...  Show more

Le grand incendie de Rome a marqué l'Histoire ! 2000 ans après, on en parle encore (la preuve avec cet épisode)... Certainement parce que cet événement fait partie de la légende noire de Néron, cet empereur romain devenu le symbole du tyran fou et sanguinaire. Pyromane, aussi, pu ...  Show more

What makes the Gettysburg Address one of the most famous speeches in history? Did Lincoln really write it on the train? How did the audience in the Soldiers' National Cemetery respond?

In this episode, Don is joined once again by Glenn LaFantasie to examine the ...

We conclude our D-Day story. What happened after the sixth of June? Three months of bitter fighting across Normandy. Hundreds of thousands of casualties. And, as Operation Overlord draws to a close, the fate of Paris hangs in the balance… A Noiser production, written by Jeff Daws ...  Show more

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, an extra from our two-part interview with Heather Cox Richardson, which aired this past week. She read every copy of the New York Times from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century. Listen to find out why. Then, to keep the his ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, a former Pentagon insider, as they explore the extremely important insights in Fritz’s new book, Deadly Betrayal, which uncovers the ugly truths behind the Iraq War in 2 ...  Show more