The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

and the establishment of the French Republic, which placed the power in the hands of the people. In Britain in 1688, the so-called Glorious Revolution took place when the Catholic King James II ...

Travel back in time to late 18th century France and follow the development of the French Revolution. What were the underlying causes for the revolution? What was the Reign of Terror? Who was ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... it felt like the reign of hysteria and paranoia. All around Paris, people were waiting for the knock on the door and the streets of the ...

Fewer people (4 million to France's 24 million ... who felt that on their way to the Revolution, French leaders simply checked their common sense at the door. Of course it was more complicated ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

Though the farthest flung draw for the New York summer people, the Clark’s summer ... painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the Bonaparte era from the wee pharaoh ...