An opinion piece draws parallels between the French Revolution's causes and current American political issues, urging readers ...

The seeds of the American Revolution were sown decades before the first shots were fired or quills set to parchment. But ...

Involving all economic classes is crucial in the struggle for democracy. But don't bank on help from Uncle Sam. [ analysis ] Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali -- the man who ruled Tunisia with an iron fist ...

On September 13, 1971, Lin Biao, China’s defense minister, died in an airplane crash. What made his last flight memorable was that he was fleeing to the Soviet Union after he was discovered plotting a ...

Many otherwise well-educated Americans know remarkably little about the actual circumstances of their country’s birth. Assumptions about that early period, frequently offered as counterexamples to the ...

Place de Grève at the Storming of the Bastille, Jul. 14, 1789, from an 18th-century engraving by Letourmy of Orléans History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the ...

THE call for a third edition of Mr. Beesly’s apologetic Life of Danton 1 seems to show that there is Danton in the political air. In fact, some of the features of the French Revolution, notably the ...