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Blue French bulldog fans may even be condemned by mere association. The Woofstock incident, in fact, had nothing to do with Jezebel but with another of Lenarth’s pups, which stayed home that day.
The American War of Independence (1775–1783) was a pivotal struggle that led to the birth of the United States. This video takes you on a compelling, map-based journey through the Revolutionary ...
The HMS "Hind," later renamed the "Earl of Chatham," was a frigate in the British Royal Navy before it was repurposed as a ...
Read It From Thomas Carlyle’s gripping history to Charles Dickens’ enduring tragedy and the rise of literary superheroes, the legacy of the French Revolution lives on in literature ...
The French Revolution opposed the Church, and those crowds were not faithful Catholics – they were people who supported closing chapels and ending the teachings of the Church.
The Moroccan regime, with meticulous planning from the Royal Palace, is waging a war on Algerian memory, enlisting pseudo-historians to try and undermine one of the symbolic pillars of the revolution.
In Revolution-era Paris, three radically chic media stars swept away centuries of strictures about what women should wear and how they should live. A new book unveils the other French Revolution.
Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...
From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.
A history of the French Revolution from the decision of King Louis XVI to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...
Her father, Patrice Higonnet, is a French historian who told his young daughter tales of the French Revolution as bedtime stories. Higonnet loved learning about her heritage, but she didn’t view ...