Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

a commercial agreement that ended the so-called Quasi War. Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this ...

In fact, France’s support for the revolutionaries in the American War of Independence ... mighty revolt from the French commoners against the monarchy, but the French Revolution was lead by ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

The American Revolution pitted colonists against the British ... capturing the British army and fleet at New York in a blow ...

This movement inspired the French Revolution to occur towards the end ... First, It was the site of the Paris Peace ...

Glucksmann is a major booster of the Ukraine war and has sharply criticized ... by the US in 1889 to mark 100 years since the French Revolution — can be found on Allée des Cygnes, a narrow ...

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 ...

A 1781 French engraving of Capt. John Paul Jones, American naval hero of the Revolutionary War. (AP ... gains from foreign governments since the Revolution. Even the man some call the “Father ...

Students display a Palestinian flag at the university campus of Sciences Po Paris to demonstrate against Israel's war on Gaza ... This climate of French-style McCarthyism started permeating ...

Raphaël Glucksmann, a center-left French politician ... told his country to be grateful for the U.S. involvement in World War II. “Dear Americans, Since the White House press secretary is ...

The French Revolution would have an enormous impact ... They would eventually find themselves at war with revolutionary France. Britain would be part of this attempt to stop France.