It is not great individuals, but mass action which drives history, argues Dominic Alexander in a series on the Great ...

It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René ...

The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, Second French Revolution ... Louis-Philippe was overthrown in the French Revolution of 1848.

Kanaris gained fame during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829). Unlike most other prominent figures of the War, he had ...

The American women's struggle for the right to vote was a long and arduous one spanning several decades before the 19th ...

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John Payne Collier was at the height of his academic career. Then he was unmasked as a prolific and audacious forger ...

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 ...

Officially launching the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., the Seneca Falls Convention was held in July 1848 and consisted of some 300 people gathering to discuss the rights of women.

Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence ... stock illustrations John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an ...