This Fourth of July, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, depicted in this 1819 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...