Local author Kathleen Dowling continues to shed new light on the 1848 Emancipation in the former Danish West Indies, offering ...

This story accompanies the article about Lafayette200 events, "Marquis de Lafayette toured Lancaster 200 years ago." ...

After being expelled from Germany and later France due to his political views, Marx and his family moved to Brussels in 1845, ...

Our expert historian and columnist surveys the historical field and picks a shelf’s work of books that every intelligent ...

The second French republic was established through the revolution of 1848 toppling the monarchy of King Louis-Philippe. The liberal hopes of establishing an enduring democratic regime were soon ...

The first French republic (1848–1852) after the French Revolution had given way to monarchy. The second French republic was established through the revolution of 1848 toppling the monarchy of ...

The slave trade ran unabated in French colonies for over 200 years, until being abolished in 1848. Natives of the French colonies eventually gained full citizenship.

To him it was always a Jacobin thing born of the French Revolution. Partly, too, because the German people were, as indeed they still are, politically inept. They had been excluded from all ...

LEGHORN, June, 1860. In my last letter I gave you some of my recollections of the revolution of 1848, during the whole of which it was my fortune to be in one part or other of the Peninsula.

The raised, clinched fist has a long history in propagandistic imagery as a symbol of resistance and revolution in Western popular culture, dating back at least to the French Revolution of 1848 as ...

A leader of the French Revolution of 1848, Alexandre-August Ledru-Rollin, articulated the reality best when he said, "There go the people and I must follow them. For I am their leader.” ...