Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...
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 ...
In his insightful new book, The Revolution to Come, Dan Edelstein offers some surprising answers to these questions and explores how the idea of revolution has changed over time. What was once called ...
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 ...
IN The Atlantic for October, 1890, we reviewed Captain Mahan’s Influence of Sea Power upon History ; pointing out the originality and worth of the book, and expressing the hope that it would be ...