The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the stirring swell of the Marseillaise, but also the rotting bodies of those brutally killed ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

Though the farthest flung draw for the New York summer people, the Clark’s summer ... painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the Bonaparte era from the wee pharaoh ...

‘We need daring, more daring, always daring, to dare, to dare, to dare again!’ ‘Still more traitors, still more treason…’ ...