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 ...

that brought down the last Pharaoh of the middle kingdom. Ordinary people were dressing themselves up in finery. and there ...

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

The American and French Revolutions change the power dynamics of the world. Part 2 of our educational timeline of History's ...

The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus ...

Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread starvation in ...

George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. George Washington strikes a confident pose after the victorious Battle of Princeton in this iconic ...

SAINT-PIERRE-D’OLERON, France (AP) — A motorist “deliberately” hit five people over 35 minutes on Île d’Oléron, a quiet French island popular with summer tourists off the Atlantic coast, two of them ...

Ray Offenheiser discusses the humble plant breeder’s audacious plan to feed the world and the fallout he didn’t forsee. Borlaug smiling in wheat field. Image, 1960s. International Maize and Wheat ...

Smithsonian Art Index Master List, Nmaa, December, 1981, Divisio N of Military History. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source ...