On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, a moment that changed the course of the French Revolution and sent shockwave ...
Lamar University history professor Rebecca Boone’s class on the French Revolution is more than just a textbook case of class revolt. It’s history that comes alive, as students become part of the ...
Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...
Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...
The French Revolution was not a simple historic event but a long and complex process in which a number of different stadia may be identified. Some of these stadia were even counterrevolutionary in ...
John McGreevy's new book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis is, as the title suggests, ambitious. Even at a little over 400 pages, how to distill a "global" ...
John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce. By Timothy Egan When you purchase an ...
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How Has the Idea of Revolution Changed?
Books & the Arts / A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. Peter E. Gordon Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always mean change? Does it require ...
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