Last week we have seen Prussia shock the European theatre under Frederick the Great. As he passed away childless, his nephew, ...

Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

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1. The quality that makes Jules Michelet’s history so powerful is what the French call souffle—literally, breath; figuratively, inspiration, creativity, energy. Michelet understood the French ...

Severe volcanic eruptions and changes in the activity of the sun may have set the scene for some of the world’s most famous rebellions, including the French Revolution. It has long been known that ...

Ending explained for The American Revolution episode 4. How losing Philadelphia, Saratoga’s victory, and Valley Forge set up ...

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, Texas’s Modern-Art Pioneer Guillaume Lethière, a specialist in death by virtue, fit right in. Guillaume Lethière is the big summer exhibition at the Clark Art Institute ...

This scene during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Friday, July 26, 2024, was meant to represent the Greek gods during a banquet, according to organizers. (Religious News ...

“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge. By Dina Gachman Most days, Anne Higonnet is able to ...