A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...

If the French Revolution, which took place from 1789 to 1799, had not occurred, the course of history would have been ...

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The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

Though Marie Antoinette may not have actually said, “Let them eat cake,” the French monarchy and aristocracy displayed an ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during the ...

Hungary’s freedom fighter during the Revolution of 1848. Kossuth township is located in the southeast of the state in Des Moines County, which, ironically, no longer borders the Des Moines River ...

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Scan a few headlines and you’ll find, broadly speaking, that there are two schools of thought around the implications of artificial intelligence: the Cassandras and the Polyannas. But Reid ...

Photo by MPI/Getty Images On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. The ...

Time was, our republic was renowned as a realm of fatalist resignation and arrested development. Many of us grew up accustomed to those affectionate barbs about how yesterday and tomorrow were ...