Nov 2020

Les Etats-Unis dans la Première Guerre mondiale

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

26m 47s

Nov 2020

La guerre de Sécession : les “Etats-Désunis”

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

32m 16s

Nov 2020

La statue de la Liberté : tout un symbole !

C'est une française qui règne sur la baie de New-York depuis 134 ans… Dans le deuxième épisode de notre série spéciale "Au cœur de l'Histoire" consacrée au passé des Etats-Unis, Jean des Cars revient sur les origines et les nombreuses vies de la statue de la Liberté, le plus célè ... Show More

26m 44s

Nov 2020

The Yanks Are Coming -- America Enters World War One

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

52m 40s

Aug 2017

What if the Nazis Had Won World War Two?

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

15m 28s

Aug 2022

Welcome to American History Hit

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 Powhatan as he prepares for war with the Bri ... Show More

3m 12s

Oct 2023

The Postwar Lives of WW2 Leaders, Both Axis and Allies

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

20m 46s

Sep 2021

The Start of WWII

On September 1 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland followed two days later by France and the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany and beginning the Second World War. This was the opening act in what would be the most devastating clash in human history. By its end Europe and much ... Show More

53m 11s

Jul 2023

Russia & USA: The 100-Year Cold War

The Cold War was defined by the antagonism between two world superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. They relied on proxy wars, espionage, disinformation, assassinations and sabotage to undermine one another as part of a greater ideological battle between Western dem ... Show More

25m 50s

Aug 2017

German POWs in the US During WW2

Did you know that over 400,000 German POWs were settled in the United States during World War II? Did you know that they may have built some of the stone buildings that make up your town square? Or that they were responsible for bringing in America’s harvest in the fall of 1945 w ... Show More

11m 12s

Sep 2023

WW2: How The War Ended

The Second World War officially ended on September 2nd 1945 - and it's estimated that around 3% of the Earth's population perished during the conflict. But what ultimately bought WW2 to an end - and how vital a role did the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki play in obtaining a J ... Show More

38m 16s

La conquête de l’Ouest