In “Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present,” Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s international affairs show, “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” explores historic revolutions in an attempt to ...

Guest columnist Anna Barker shares her latest historical piece.

Leaderless revolutions are, at times, a reaction to historical distrust of charismatic leaders who, after victory, themselves ...

THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION— George Soule—Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of ...

Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...