This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the ...

The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion that ...

The Music Institute of Chicago welcomes faculty pianist Matthew Hagle for “Phantoms of Countless Lost,” a program exploring ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

The following is a translation of an article by Pannekoek. Originally published in Arbeiterpolitik no. 47 and 48 (in two ...

He eventually became foreign minister after the revolution of 1848 but again backed the losers in the imperial restoration of 1851. Returning to his books, he described in The Ancien Régime and ...

How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a Halloween staple? In Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon, Cindy Ott documents the surprising importance of pumpkins throughout ...

US designs on Cuba stretch back nearly 200 years, from attempting to buy the island from Spain in 1848 to supporting the Batista dictatorship in the mid-20th century. During this period, Cuba became a ...

A meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. 1512: Medici’s discharge Niccolo Machiavelli ...

Over 350-some brisk pages, Storm sets out to trace how nationalism developed in politics, culture and the arts from the age ...