The Mexican War: The Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847. Undated hand-tinted 19th-century lithograph.Image by Bettmann/CORBIS Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, ...
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 ...
In 1848, before the age of the 'new imperialism', France already claimed an overseas empire extending from the Americas to Africa and the Indian Ocean. The sole North American possession France ...
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 ...
A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient ...
Most of the students returned to the Latin Quarter and disrupted the tranquillity of the 12th arrondissement. Some students joined different crowds of people on the right bank. The law student M.
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