Account of the events in June 1848 when the workers of Paris rose up against the conservative republican government and its plans to abolish government supported workshops. The euphoria that set in ...

What’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark ...

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During the last years of the July Monarchy the institution of French colonial slavery seemed to be weakening on several fronts. In 1845 the Soult-Guizot Cabinet passed legislation intended to prepare ...

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 ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church failed in its attempt to establish a German nation-state. But on the 175th anniversary, there are calls to commemorate it as ...

“Each revolution must be assessed in its own context, each had a distinctive impact. The revolutions spread from one point to another. They interacted to a limited extent. … The drama of each ...