Joseph Loconte, Ph.D., is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English ...

In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.

Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism.

Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English statesman Edmund Burke saw storm clouds on the horizon. Under the banner of “liberty, equality, and fraternity,” the ...

For many people, however, mention of this period of French history leads to the vision of a bloodthirsty Revolution indiscriminately sending to their death thousands of nobles.

Object Details artist Philippoteaux, Felix Emmanuel Henri b. 1815 Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 147 "Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution ...

As we grapple with what might change in the wake of covid-19 and unrest across the country, the case of the French Revolution of 1789 reminds us of the contested nature of social change ...