Episodes

Straight from the heart from someone who believes storytelling is a sacred art.

Two holy sites claim ownership of Mary Magdalene's remains. Only one skull can be the genuine bone belonging to Mary Magdalene. What follows is an epic tale of faith, fraud and the remaking of the European mind.

Dr. Aliza Luft discusses how high-ranking leaders in the French Catholic Church abandoned Jews during their hour of need during World War 2.

We're talking all about one of France's greatest cities: Toulouse.

Was the Maginot Line a colossal failure or an unappreciated work of genius? Dr. Kevin Passmore breaks down its history and its role in France's strange defeat.

Toulouse dominates Occitania but who will control Toulouse?

Why is France's head-chopping machine named after someone who didn't invent or use it? Find out!

Dr. Scott Carpenter talks about the historic Franco-American connections & why we should Make America French Again.

We cover a number of great ladies of medieval Occitania.

Dr. Ashley Valanzola discusses how seven women's experiences in the Holocaust and its commemoration.

Did France 'civilize' Germany after WW2? Many French leaders certainly tried and Dr. Drew Flanagan talks all about it.

All about life in sunny Occitania before the Albigensian Crusade.

Author James Giesler talks about Francisco de Saavedra, the man who coordinated Spain and France's joint war efforts in the American Revolutionary War.

The end of our series on violent punishment in early modern France and its empire by Wyatt Wiggins.

Wyatt Wiggins explores punishment and power in the French Empire.

The power of the state in the time of Revolution and Empire by Wyatt Wiggins.

Occitania: the land of courtly love, sun and poetry, before its ruin.

Dr.s Christopher Hodson & Brett Rushforth discuss their magnum opus which took them 15 years to write: the history of French conquerors, explorers, adventurers & pirates on the high seas.

Dr. Sarah Fishman discusses two popular women columnists who reshaped French society in the 1950s-onward.

Dr. Chris Millington talks all about how Eastern European terrorists asssassinated the King of Yugoslavia in 1934 Marseille.

Wyatt Wiggins talks about how French imperial agents branded human beings as a demonstration of power.

Dr. Jeff Horn talks about how a young idealist spread The Terror in Revolutionary France.

Dr. Elana Passman talks about the French and Germans who tried to bring peace to both countries in 1925-1963.

Provence suffers civil war, invasion and imperial intrigue but somehow still experiences a miniature golden age under the Counts of Barcelona.