The political crisis during the German revolution of 1848/49 once again intensified after March 1848 due to the clashes between revolution and counter-revolution. The crisis was set off by a conflict ...

An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness… A short history of the newspaper Neue Rheinische ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church failed in its attempt to establish a German nation-state. But on the 175th anniversary, there are calls to commemorate it as ...

It may be difficult to see ourselves as Pharaohs or Caesars, but the enduring (and romantic) image of long-haired radicals storming the barricades is very familiar. The ideological battle lines of ...

Certain years in European history — 1789, 1914 and 1989 among them — mark major inflection points, where history that had seemed to be going in one direction suddenly veered off into another. 1848, by ...

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...