Power To The People: Abbè Sieyès And The Third Estate
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, also known as the Abbè Sieyès, was a major player of the French Revolution. During this period he challenged the ancien régime system…
Murder for a Cause: Gavrilo Princip’s Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This is not a story about the start of World War I, or the consequences of it. This is the story of how a…
Children without a Childhood: Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution
Children today spend five days a week going to school for eight hours. During the first half of the nineteenth century in Britain, this…
Intellect Unappreciated: French Mathematician and Scientist Émilie du Châtelet
In the early Eighteenth Century, intellectual themes were not part of women’s duties, and it was frowned upon for women to research and question. That…