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. 1848, by ...

Revolutions in the Middle East have inspired many comparisons, but they may look more like the European revolutions of 1848. As University of Missouri professor Jonathan Sperber tells Guy Raz, 1848 — ...

"As for the greater number of revolutionists, they unhappily know only of the theatrical side of former revolutions as related with forced effect by historians, and they scarcely suspected the immense ...

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 ...

America and the revolutions of 1848. The European revolutions of 1848 were the occasion of Karl Marx’s famous dictum that everything in history happens twice—the first time as tragedy, the second time ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could have imagined this would be the last feudal Diet in Hungarian history. That ...

Some pundits have compared the recent uprisings in the Middle East to the American Revolution or to the upheavals in Eastern Europe that ended the Cold War. But the 1848 revolutions in Europe may ...

Explore the evolution of government forms across Europe from the French Revolution in 1789 to the present day. This video examines significant historical events, including: - French Revolution - ...

Europe's century of upheaval—and the revolutions in the middle of them—offer insights into the post–Arab Spring world. The Arab upheaval has been the cause of profound bewilderment in the developed ...