Long before the discovery of iron reshaped civilizations, Bronze Age metalworkers may discovered it by accident, new research ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present" (W.W. Norton), journalist and CNN anchor Fareed ...

THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION— George Soule—Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of ...

The Bastille looms large in the revolutionary imagination. When Paris crowds seized the French king’s fortress in July 1789, they unwittingly created a model for every subsequent upheaval. From the ...

Anna Barker's latest column takes a look at the French Revolution.