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A funny, fascinating and personal look at 100 years of history in the BBC archives Historian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to visit somewhere in the BBC's vast archives of remarkable sound clips from the last 100 years. Using that clip as a jumping-off point to explore what has...

In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites listeners on 25 one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through 700 years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. "[An] enchanting travelogue" (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.

America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation’s pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than is apparent - that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts.

Poniemieckie heißt in Polen das ehemals Deutsche: Orte, Gebäude, Gegenstände, die von Millionen Deutschen zurückgelassen wurden, als sie am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs gen Westen flüchteten. Die neuen Besitzer waren Polen, oft selbst Vertriebene oder Umgesiedelte. Was den einen Verlust der Heimat, war den anderen Neubeginn im Fremden. Zwei Enden einer Geschichte, die zeigt, wie Biografien und Dinge über Zeiträume, Landesgrenzen und Generationen hinweg bis heute miteinander verwoben sind.