Certain years in European history — 1789, 1914 and 1989 among them — mark major inflection points, where history that had seemed to be going in one direction suddenly veered off into another. Rapper ...

The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions of 1848, was almost universally consistent. “1848? What happened ...

Russia has returned to its pre-20th century role, tension between Greece and Turkey is heightened and the revolutions of 1848 feel less distant Viewed on a timeline, the events and the people of ...

In “Revolutionary Spring,” the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark argues for the lasting impact of the uprisings that engulfed Europe in 1848. By Alexander Zevin When you purchase an independently ...

“All governments face insoluble problems — that is what governments are for. It is in the nature of political problems that they cannot be ‘solved’.” This quote could refer to climate change, the war ...

Much ado has been made in St. Louis history books about the importance of the 1848 revolutions in Germany, which lead to the immigration of thousands of refugees fleeing the repression that followed ...

An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness it provoked and its expression in the 1848 revolutions ...

This exhibition features objects that illuminate the rich history of design during a period of rapid political, technological, and social changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Themes ...