It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

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Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...

For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University marks another grim milestone in America’s escalating cycle of political violence. From the attempts on Donald Trump’s life to the ...

Severe volcanic eruptions and changes in the activity of the sun may have set the scene for some of the world’s most famous rebellions, including the French Revolution. It has long been known that ...

The Great Fear was based on an unfounded rumor. That didn't matter when it came to real world consequences. Credit: Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old stage. Constructed in the early first century, when Christ was a child, the ...

A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. By Paige McClanahan Photographs by Dmitry Kostyukov Paige McClanahan, the author of “The New Tourist: Waking up to the ...