Saturday was Bastille Day, the French holiday commemorating a pivotal moment of the French Revolution: The storming of the Bastille prison. But in addition to remembering the revolutionaries with a ...

It was the summer of 1789, and a strange fever was sweeping across France. It wasn’t a plague, or at least not a plague of the body. To some, it a plague of the mind. Parisians had stormed the ...

This article explores the impact of cultural studies on women's history by looking at the case of Charlotte Corday. Recent scholarly treatments of Corday demonstrate attempts to consolidate a new ...

About a year ago, I started what I intended to be an occasional series about landmark food-related moments in history. Then I forgot and, although Amanda and I have certainly written about food's role ...

At times confusing, at times insightful, this exploration of the French Revolution relies heavily on Freudian concepts of psychoanalysis and Hegelian concepts of "historical stages" to explain how the ...

With the invention of the guillotine came curiosity as to how long its victims could remain conscious after decapitation. While Lora Jones’s debut is largely concerned with the impact of the French ...