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April 18, 1806. In his study, President Thomas Jefferson signs a law that doesn’t look like an act of war. It bans imports. Leather. Silk. Glass. Playing cards. A strange list. A quiet move. But Jefferson is trying to confront one of the most powerful empires in the world, withou ...  Show more

This episode comes from Points North, a podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. You can listen to Points North wherever you get your podcasts. Lake Champlain is more than 16 times smaller than Lake Ontario, the smallest Great Lake. But in 1998, Congress ...  Show more

For centuries Spain had been an outlier in Europe due to its religious diversity; Christians, Jews, and Muslims all existed reasonably peacefully across the Iberian peninsula. Under Isabelle of Castile that all changed. She began the Spanish Inquisition and brought to the fore a ...  Show more

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ... and Ferdinand, king of Aragon, and Isabella, queen of Castile expelled the Jewish population from Spain.

Estamos en Semana Santa y echo mucho de menos España, pero no es por motivos religiosos. Muchas personas piensan que España es un país muy religioso, pero no es verdad. España ya no es un país tan católico como antes. De todo eso hablamos en el episodio de hoy. Escucha todos los ...  Show more

Dans cet épisode de Crousti-History, on vous parle de l’inquisition espagnole. ¡ Vamos ! L’Espagne est en pleine Reconquista et le gouvernement fait de la foi catholique sa priorité. Le Pape charge les rois catholiques de désigner leur inquisiteur. Ils ne rigolaient pas : se conv ...  Show more