By 1789 France was broke ... guaranteeing all French citizens freedom of speech, press, and religion, as well as a representative government and equality before the law. Some citizens, however ...

It might have the image of being a mighty revolt from the French commoners against the monarchy, but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI ...

Indeed, they could have had one more clearly written than ours: Just a month after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 ... government required the registration of non-hunting guns. Meanwhile, a ...

In this catastrophe, those anti-government forces that have been swirling in the dark edges of Spanish politics for years are ...

We shouldn't wonder why, given a choice between a former prosecutor and a felon, so many Americans were panting for the felon ...

Herring noted in From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776: “The United States in 1789 remained ... As the French failed to install a pro-French government in the United ...

France became a republic in 1792 when they abolished the monarchy in what is known as the French Revolution ... there has been a federal system of government since 1789. Each state has its ...

One popular answer to this question, asserted by many American conservatives and liberals alike: that proper conservatives ...

Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants if elected, a move that has only been invoked three times in the past 225 years.

DAVID GRAY / Contributor / Getty Images The gold standard is not currently used by any government ... The U.S. Constitution in 1789 gave Congress the sole right to coin money and the power ...

In 1789, electors chosen by ten states cast ballots and elected George Washington as our first President of the United States.  America’s first election would not fit the modern definition of a ...

The furniture in the bedroom where George Washington died will go into storage. So will his silver oil lamps, his French marble and bronze mantel clock, and most of the other contents of his elegant ...