What everyone likes to remember about the French Revolution is that it proclaimed the rights of man, including equality for all under the law. By comparison, its slightly older and wiser sister, the ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

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 ...

You are familiar with the story of the American Revolution. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...

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Jean Marie Joseph Bove's depiction of Lafayette returning to the U.S. The caption says, 'A great man belongs to the whole universe.' Blancheteau Collection/Cornell University Library via Wikimedia ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...

A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. By Paige McClanahan Photographs by Dmitry Kostyukov Paige McClanahan, the author of “The New Tourist: Waking up to the ...