Paris is built upon ideas that seem embedded in the stones of the city.
Arcade, Place des Vosges
Podcasts
Laïcité: French Secularism
It's a French Thing
The Edict of Nantes to the French Revolution
Public Education Becomes a Battleground
Universalism vs. Separatism
La Ville Verte: The Greening of Paris
The Paris Greening Program
Pee Town: Paris Puts Its Urine to Work
De-Greening the Champ-de-Mars
Re-imagining a Green Notre-Dame
Greenwashing Paris
Is the History of Paris Being Greenwashed?
The Greening of Paris: A Brief History
Greening Paris on Dead Trees (Paper)
Bohemianism
Walking a Lobster: Origins of la Bohème
Le Petite Cénacle: First Generation of Bohemia
The Most Bohemian Bohemian
Marking Bohemia: Scènes de la Vie de Bohème
Les Enfants de la Bohème: The Many Isms of Bohemianism
Mark Twain and France
Mark Twain Takes a Shave in Paris
Walter Benjamin in Paris
"An Afternoon in Paris"
Quelle Bourgeois! Biography of a Social Class
Intro: "Quelle Bourgeois!"
Video Presentations
(with Fédération Alliances Françaises USA)
Paris: A City of Ideas
Myths and Mysteries of the Bastille
(with the Embassy of France in the United States)
D-Day and the Soul of France
On display at Café Procope, rue de l'Ancienne Comédie
Newsletters
"Through the Eyes of Eric Hazan"
A tribute to one of the city's most insightful historians and greatest flâneurs.
Special Focus: The psychogeography of the urban landscape, from Benjamin to Debors to Hazan.
It's a French Thing
The Edict of Nantes to the French Revolution
Public Education Becomes a Battleground
Universalism vs. Separatism
La Ville Verte: The Greening of Paris
The Paris Greening Program
Pee Town: Paris Puts Its Urine to Work
De-Greening the Champ-de-Mars
Re-imagining a Green Notre-Dame
Greenwashing Paris
Is the History of Paris Being Greenwashed?
The Greening of Paris: A Brief History
Greening Paris on Dead Trees (Paper)
Bohemianism
Walking a Lobster: Origins of la Bohème
Le Petite Cénacle: First Generation of Bohemia
The Most Bohemian Bohemian
Marking Bohemia: Scènes de la Vie de Bohème
Les Enfants de la Bohème: The Many Isms of Bohemianism
Mark Twain and France
Mark Twain Takes a Shave in Paris
Walter Benjamin in Paris
"An Afternoon in Paris"
Quelle Bourgeois! Biography of a Social Class
Intro: "Quelle Bourgeois!"
Video Presentations
(with Fédération Alliances Françaises USA)
Paris: A City of Ideas
Myths and Mysteries of the Bastille
(with the Embassy of France in the United States)
D-Day and the Soul of France
On display at Café Procope, rue de l'Ancienne Comédie
Newsletters
"Through the Eyes of Eric Hazan"
A tribute to one of the city's most insightful historians and greatest flâneurs.
Special Focus: The psychogeography of the urban landscape, from Benjamin to Debors to Hazan.
It's a French Thing
The Edict of Nantes to the French Revolution
Public Education Becomes a Battleground
Universalism vs. Separatism
La Ville Verte: The Greening of Paris
The Paris Greening Program
Pee Town: Paris Puts Its Urine to Work
De-Greening the Champ-de-Mars
Re-imagining a Green Notre-Dame
Greenwashing Paris
Is the History of Paris Being Greenwashed?
The Greening of Paris: A Brief History
Greening Paris on Dead Trees (Paper)
Bohemianism
Walking a Lobster: Origins of la Bohème
Le Petite Cénacle: First Generation of Bohemia
The Most Bohemian Bohemian
Marking Bohemia: Scènes de la Vie de Bohème
Les Enfants de la Bohème: The Many Isms of Bohemianism
Mark Twain and France
Mark Twain Takes a Shave in Paris
Walter Benjamin in Paris
"An Afternoon in Paris"
Quelle Bourgeois! Biography of a Social Class
Intro: "Quelle Bourgeois!"
Video Presentations
(with Fédération Alliances Françaises USA)
Paris: A City of Ideas
Myths and Mysteries of the Bastille
(with the Embassy of France in the United States)
D-Day and the Soul of France