This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic ... and in a series of tumultuous events, toppled the French monarchy, and forced reforms across Italy, Germany ...

This small island just off the coast of Senegal in West Africa was the site of one of the earliest European settlements and ...

The story of communism is one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. The movement grew, above all, out of horror at the ...

He did not give up. In 1846 he escaped in disguise and fled once again to London, where he remained until France’s 1848 revolution, when the abdication of King Louis Philippe gave way to the Second ...

The division between the two branches of the French royal family dates back to the Revolution of 1789. Louis XVI, passive and dutiful, accepted the Revolution, however reluctantly, until in 1792 he ...

Three traditions have usually been considered to influence Karl Marx’s work: German philosophy, British political economy, ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several ... the British-American painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848). In 1839, he travelled to Portage Falls on ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... It was then reinstated by Napoleon in 1802 and abolished again in 1848. Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the ...

Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, meant unearthing its authentic culture.

Reforms in the states of the French-occupied Confederation of the Rhine and a new ... Prussia and Austria rejected the introduction of constitutions for their sovereign territories until 1848. Only in ...

An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...