France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Algeria’s independence came through the National Liberation War (1954–1962), led by the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN).

Those who attended the 300th birthday party for the comte de Rochambeau celebrated his partnership with Washington, and the civil way they made decisions.

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French startup Pazzi Robotics created an AI-powered pizza robot that made pies in under five minutes without human help, but it closed in 2022 despite patents and expert partnerships.

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided ...

Every month this year, Untapped New York will release a new essay from Jo Holmes about the life and work of the late ...

In the first of two extracts from her new book, Revolution in Carcassonne, Elaine Graham-Leigh explains how and why the city ...

The critical thinker, Michel Foucault, could sense the “political spirituality” and the ‘new discourse of militant Islam’ embedded in the Revolution. The genealogy of the US aggression against Muslim ...

I don’t celebrate the Fourth of July. Celebrating the Revolution is like celebrating the First World War — needless butchery.

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...