The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

Movies about the French Revolution are diverse, including costume dramas, horror films, comedies, and more, all set during this turbulent time period. Some movies aim for historical accuracy and ...

The French Revolution Offers a Warning About Presidential Immunity. 7 minute read 'Call for the Last Victims of the Terror' - painting by Charles Louis Lucien Müller, c. 1850.

We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax—a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of ...

The French Revolution opposed the Church, and those crowds were not faithful Catholics – they were people who supported closing chapels and ending the teachings of the Church.

Religion and the French Revolution. Established in the 16th century by two saints, Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross, the Order of Discalced Carmelites is a Catholic religious order.

Bastille Day celebrates the rebellion that ignited the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, thousands of Parisians stormed the prison to protest King Louis XVI's abuse of power.

The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.