Perhaps nothing was more decadent about aristocrats before the French Revolution than their over-the-top meals; the things French aristocrats ate even make modern Americans looks like humble cuisine ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

When two young women – both born with the extraordinary gift of ‘sight’ – become caught up in the terrors of the French ...

The English word "picnic" comes from the French "pique-nique," already in use in France by the 1600s and said to refer to a group of people getting together for an informal meal and each bringing a ...

Patronage has changed and evolved over the years with several craftsmen shutting shop and the quest for rare gems and jewels ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns.Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a ...

Solidarity's introduction to Alexandra Kollontai's "Workers Opposition". Content warning: some archaic language. Libcom note: ...

Churchill called the last volume of his World War II chronicle Triumph and Tragedy. He had held the West together not only by his fierce commitment to fight the tyrant to the death, but also by making ...

With over 8 billion people spread across the Earth's nearly 25 million square miles of habitable land, proving one's identity ...