The 18th century often feels like a distant world of powdered wigs, candlelit salons, and horse-drawn carriages. But a recent Reddit post that went viral with more than 111 thousand upvotes and 2.9 ...

No sooner did Bonaparte withdraw his breath than the soul went out of the new universe. Objects faded the moment that the ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could ...

Aristopopulism celebrates the virtues of the free market the same way Washington did during the Gilded Age. It buys and sells ...

Europe’s 1848 revolts were fueled by political, economic, and social pressures. This coverage examines how these historical ...

"Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution of 1848' is painted on a canvas ten feet high by twenty feet long. It contains two hundred and fifty figures - many of ...

Workers at General Motors occupied factories for 44 days in Flint, controlling irreplaceable auto body dies. Michigan’s ...

Introduction: Empires at war -- Civil war in the British Empire : the American Revolution -- The war on privilege and dissension : the French Revolution -- From prize colony to Black independence : ...

Baby boomers have gotten credit for all kinds of societal trends, from the counterculture to consumerism. Now they’re behind what’s known as “gray divorce” — couples calling it quits in middle age or ...