The French Revolution began in 1789, and tensions peaked with King Louis and Marie Antoinette’s failed escape attempt in 1791 ...

Brigitte Bardot, who died at the age of 91 on Sunday, lived a life filled with contradiction and controversy, but became a ...

From the counterculture of the 1960s to today’s ‘Gen Z revolutions’, mass uprisings have repeatedly failed to dismantle power ...

French film star and activist Bardot, who has died at 91, lurched to the right after she retired from motion pictures in 1973 ...

In the middle of this political crisis, a small church, the Collégiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Roquemaure, 673km south of Paris, commissioned a poem to celebrate the restoration of their church organ.

Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...

After a shaky start, this function came to be fulfilled by political parties. Nowadays, parties are largely viewed as tribal, ...

Stark County readers borrowed cookbooks, thrillers and self-help books in 2025. See top titles for local libraries.

Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect the recent news event of a fire at the iconic landmark. It was originally published in the May/June 2017 issue of National Geographic History Magazine.

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.

The revolutionary era was remarkable, a kind of “gilded age” for Ireland, and not just politically. WB Yeats wrote and ...

The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...