But the politics of this King also signaled the beginning of a period of decline for the Prussian Kingdom. All in all, it can ...

The political use of the words “left” and “right” first emerged when the French Estates-General met in 1789. The clergy and nobility sat to the king’s right, the “third estate”—the commoners—to his ...

Toppled crowns and tumbrels to the guillotine are just part of the massive archive of images and documents released online this month. The French Revolution Digital Archive, a partnership between ...

Around 2,000 largely young people attended the May 24 Paris meeting of Révolution permanente (RP), the French section of the self-styled Trotskyist Fraction-Fourth International (FT-CI) led by ...

CUNY economist Milanovic (A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality) profiles prominent economists in this sweeping survey of more than 200 years of philosophical thought about inequality ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.