If the French Revolution, which took place from 1789 to 1799, had not occurred, the course of history would have been ...

Yann LeCun used to head research at Meta. He’s a pre-eminent voice in tech, and took the stage at Davos this January to talk about some of the dynamics in play here. In interviewing LeCun for segment ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

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Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire Scots own Colonial plantations The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

Even Wordsworth may have been on hand. Collectively, they raised their glasses in a succession of toasts: to the rights of man and the citizen; to the new French republic; to the end of feudalism; to ...

Enlightenment is one of the granddaddies of Linux desktops, and after a couple of years, the project has a shiny new release. Version 0.27.0 was released earlier this month, with possibly the shortest ...

Scan a few headlines and you’ll find, broadly speaking, that there are two schools of thought around the implications of artificial intelligence: the Cassandras and the Polyannas. But Reid ...

Red regime flags had already been replaced by the green three-starred flag of the Syrian revolution—procured from who knows where, given that just three days beforehand, being caught with one ...

In his Monday inaugural address President Donald Trump promised that by issuing a series of executive orders, “we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common ...

Jefferson’s views on religion were deeply influenced by Enlightenment principles ... Church as the official church of Virginia after the Revolution. John Turley lives in Charleston.