Education Unlimited recently announced its upcoming course, The French Revolution. The six-session course, taught by Jill Harsin, professor of history at Colgate University, will explore in depth the ...
Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...
CHICOPEE –For more than 25 years Jeanne Douillard has traced the history of the French in New England. A Springfield native and Greenfield resident, she is among the major contributors to The ...
For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons, many have ...