Lamar University history professor Rebecca Boone’s class on the French Revolution is more than just a textbook case of class revolt. It’s history that comes alive, as students become part of the ...

Anna Barker's latest column takes a look at the French Revolution.

Let me take you back to 225 years ago to what were then the suburbs of Paris. An angry crowd gathered outside an old fortress in search of arms and gunpowder. The Bastille was nearly empty. There were ...

The French Revolution Pamphlets collection at Brandeis University's Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department consists of 94 documents (three linear feet) published ...

In 1891, the Sorbonne established a chair in the History of the French Revolution, first occupied by Alphonse Aulard. This, suggests Quétel, marked the beginnings of Revolution history’s socialist and ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

How has the idea of revolution changed? A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. The storming of the Bastille. Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always ...