France’s monarchy fell under the weight of hunger, spiraling debt, and political indecision. This video examines Louis XVI’s critical missteps — from financial turmoil to his failed escape — and ...

From the destruction of King George III's statue to today's No Kings movement, resistance to tyranny has always demanded ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

Could the exploding demand for Energy, a critical enabler of the AI Revolution, drive a new French-type Revolution?

Today in History for Dec. 11: In 1792, France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.) In 1813, Newark, Ont., ...

Judy Cox looks at the politics behind the ballrooms and dramatic courtships on the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth ...

Louis XIV, who was the King of France and the longest reigning monarch in European history, died on Sept. 1, 1715 Leemage/Corbis via Getty Scientists believe they have discovered the real cause of ...

Startling, absurd and even touching, the V&A’s exhibition is opulent and imaginatively displayed – but it fails in its ...

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, said he hopes the beatification process will begin soon for the German pontiff, who died on Dec. 31, 2022. “Personally, I have great ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection on Dec. 11. Nichols, 64, sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley in 1988, spoke ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will not intervene to prevent the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols, who is scheduled to die on Thursday by lethal injection NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on ...

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...