The Reign of Terror, the guillotine, the Bastille, the Third Estate: The history of the French Revolution comes to life on ...

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the king’s intentions.

George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

For centuries, historians have debated whether the “Great Fear” panic in the early days of the French Revolution was driven by the mass hysteria of ignorant peasants or a rational response to the ...

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, Texas’s Modern-Art Pioneer Guillaume Lethière, a specialist in death by virtue, fit right in. Guillaume Lethière is the big summer exhibition at the Clark Art Institute ...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University marks another grim milestone in America’s escalating cycle of political violence. From the attempts on Donald Trump’s life to the ...