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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 ...

On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, a moment that changed the course of the French Revolution and sent shockwave ...

Restaurants have an interest in dentistry. Good eating needs good teeth. But both also share a common origin, as formal ...

‘It all stands pretty fair in my head, nor do I mean to investigate much more about it, but to splash down what I know, in large masses of colours; that it may look like a smoke-and-flame ...

John McGreevy's new book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis is, as the title suggests, ambitious. Even at a little over 400 pages, how to distill a "global" ...

John T. McGreevy’s exhaustive “Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis” explains how debates within the church got so fierce. By Timothy Egan When you purchase an ...