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

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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 ...

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

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...