It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the ...

People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime ...

Perhaps this is because the period is seen as simply too sanctified ever to be fully conveyed through the moving image, or perhaps it lacks the emotional heft (and trauma) of such conflicts as the ...

Keywords American Revolution, postwar period, Articles of Confederation, economic turmoil, Shays' Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, U.S. Constitution, federalism, checks and balances, independence ...

While the Industrial Revolution led to progress in science ... Diseases that we easily treat today could be deadly in this period. The common diet was limited to the food that people could grow ...

The Industrial Revolution, which took place between 1750 - 1900, was a period of great change in Britain. There were huge technological advances which had an impact on every aspect of life.

Intervention by Max Levien at the Founding Party Congress of the KPD on the agenda of "The National Assembly". Here he speaks for a boycott of the National Assembly and upcoming elections.