The French History Podcast

Episodios

• Jewish Women & the Memory of the Holocaust with Dr. Ashley Valanzola 26.06.2026 44m

  Dr. Ashley Valanzola discusses how seven women's experiences in the Holocaust and its commemoration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Civilizing Germany? The French Occupation of Germany with Dr. Drew Flanagan 21.06.2026 48m

  Did France 'civilize' Germany after WW2? Many French leaders certainly tried and Dr. Drew Flanagan talks all about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• 91: Occitan Society 20.06.2026 39m

  All about life in sunny Occitania before the Albigensian Crusade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Working together: Spain & France in the American Revolutionary War with James Giesler 13.06.2026 22m

  Author James Giesler talks about Francisco de Saavedra, the man who coordinated Spain and France's joint war efforts in the American Revolutionary War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• From Public Execution to Penal Modernity by Wyatt Wiggins 13.06.2026 28m

  The end of our series on violent punishment in early modern France and its empire by Wyatt Wiggins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• The Empire’s Edge- Exporting Pain to Colonial Spaces by Wyatt Wiggins 09.06.2026 31m

  Wyatt Wiggins explores punishment and power in the French Empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• How Punishment Changes (And Stays The Same) by Wyatt Wiggins 29.05.2026 26m

  The power of the state in the time of Revolution and Empire by Wyatt Wiggins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• 90: Occitania’s Heartland 27.05.2026 54m

  Occitania: the land of courtly love, sun and poetry, before its ruin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• France on the High Seas with Dr.s Christopher Hodson & Brett Rushforth 19.05.2026 1h 27m

  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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Women Talking: Advice Columnists in 20th century France with Dr. Sarah Fishman 09.05.2026 47m

  Dr. Sarah Fishman discusses two popular women columnists who reshaped French society in the 1950s-onward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Assassinating a King in Marseille, 1934 with Dr. Chris Millington 02.05.2026 43m

  Dr. Chris Millington talks all about how Eastern European terrorists asssassinated the King of Yugoslavia in 1934 Marseille. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Burning Flesh in the French Empire by Wyatt Wiggins 24.04.2026 24m

  Wyatt Wiggins talks about how French imperial agents branded human beings as a demonstration of power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Becoming a Terrorist with Dr. Jeff Horn 18.04.2026 1h 8m

  Dr. Jeff Horn talks about how a young idealist spread The Terror in Revolutionary France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Making Friends with Germany, 1925-1963 with Dr. Elana Passman 04.04.2026 1h 1m

  Dr. Elana Passman talks about the French and Germans who tried to bring peace to both countries in 1925-1963. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• 89: Provence Part 2 28.03.2026 1h 36m

  Provence suffers civil war, invasion and imperial intrigue but somehow still experiences a miniature golden age under the Counts of Barcelona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Nouvelle Cuisine with Luke Barr 23.03.2026 46m

  Best-selling author Luke Barr talks all about the French craze that revolutionized what's on your plate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• De Gaulle's Shadow with Craig Willy 23.03.2026 50m

  Political expert and researcher Craig Willy discusses the history of Gaullism and its influence on modern French geopolitics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• Victor Hugo's Shipwreck Lighthouse Cycle by Peter Russella 20.03.2026 28m

  Scholar Peter Russella talks about lights in the dark and how Hugo depicted them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• 89: Provence Part 1 27.02.2026 44m

  Time to head south to a sunnier climate and a far different history from the north! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
• 88: The Medieval Tour de France 31.01.2026 18m

  We're starting a whole new journey, looking beyond 'France' to all the parts of it that made it, well, France! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices