What makes 9 Thermidor a pivotal day in history, and not just for the French? The history...
French Revolution
It could be an early scene in a monster movie. In fact, it’s an image of the...
On the morning of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the Councils that a Jacobin coup was...
Some citizens were more equal than others. Introduction Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic...
What did it mean to become a citizen of the new nation? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
French revolutionaries aimed to jettison the old order and everything associated with it. During the Revolution, the...
Most of these Americans left behind little evidence explaining why they took up arms for the French...
Popular uprisings and resistance to taxation played havoc with the nine departments into which the National Assembly...
Pisistratus’s story as a tyrant of Athens offered a powerful script for interpreting Robespierre’s actions, and a...
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
His name is associated with the Reign of Terror which claimed thousands of lives of “enemies of...
Many British radicals interpreted the early events of the French Revolution in mythic terms – akin to the Christian apocalypse. In 1789, many...