Bastille Day (July 14) marks the anniversary of one of the most important events in modern history, the storming of ...

What’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark ...

What makes societies unravel? Historians usually point to politics, corruption, or inequality. But a new study suggests that climate effects that trigger extreme weather may also play an important ...

Matthias Matthijs, senior fellow for Europe at CFR and associate professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and Sophie Meunier ...

From the American Revolution to the current war in Ukraine, a fundamental force in world politics has been revolutionary nationalism. This pathbreaking book examines revolutions in southern ...

It’s a well-worn trope that history is written by the victors. It can also be said that it is written by those in power. In Europe, the combination of these two statements means history is written by ...

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