French politicians, historians and media professionals, including historian Benjamin Stora, have criticized the hateful ...

The end of the Franco-Prussian War ushered in a new age of optimism and prosperity across much of Europe, which would be ...

Chicago has always provided a place for the disenfranchised, whether from the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, or today for those fleeing violence, famine, environmental disasters or ...

The French Revolution was a messy and extra­ordinarily bloody affair but there are very few calls for Bastille Day to be cancelled. Liberty Leading the People, 28 July 1830, by Eugene Delacroix ...

The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

PIERRE ANDRÉ LATREILLE, the brilliant French naturalist ... He returned to Paris in 1788, and during the Revolution was imprisoned at Bordeaux; but was released on account of the interest ...

At the end of December and the beginning of January Jews around the world celebrated the Festival of Lights, known as ...

Iowa’s anti-French sentiments are reflected in Clayton County’s Elkader, named after Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, an ...

Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during ...

Kolokotronis' greatest success was the defeat of the Ottoman army under Mahmud Dramali Pasha at the Battle of Dervenakia in ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

"Liberty Leading the People" commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, with the Liberty figure ... and the quotes are available in English, Spanish, French and German. ($199, £160, MoMA) Whale ...