The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected. Hunger lashed the mid-1840s with a doubly deadly grain and potato crisis (Clark’s ancestors were among the many thousands who fled ...

In 1849, many of the revolutions of 1848 might have seemed disastrous, but looking back from 1899 or 1919, they seemed like the beginning of a successful change.

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the continent. Hungry workers and peasants joined forces with liberals and ...

"1848: Year of Revolution" by Mike Rapport chronicles a year in European history when the springtime of revolution gave way to reaction and counterrevolution. Skip to content. Local News.

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...

Yet 1848 and 1989 are not the right analogies for this past winter's events. The revolutions of 1848 sought to overturn traditional monarchies, and those in 1989 were aimed at toppling communist ...

Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...