The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

Yes, the U.S. declared independence from the British Crown in 1776. But the kind of “king” these protesters seem to fear had ...

Trump and the Glorious Revolution ... The king asserted his right to rule Britain without Parliament. The people were at first not bothered, as it seemed a quarrel among politicians.

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, by Richard Brookhiser (Yale, 276 pp., $30) Trumbull marks a departure from the author’s previous biographical subjects, all of whom ...

After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England overthrew royal absolutism—ending, once and for all, the supposed “divine right of kings”—but then transferred that absolute power to Parliament.

When earlier this year one of our foremost architectural writers, Clive Aslet, published a superb biography of Edwin Lutyens, ...

A continuous thread runs from the accession of England’s first Stuart king, James I, in 1603, to the dynasty’s fall in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688-89.Yet historians often balk at ...

The Glorious French Revolution is quite the change of tack. Ward writes and directs but cedes the stage to a cast of five who perform his biggest and boldest show to date.

The Glorious French Revolution (or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done) continues at the New Diorama Theatre until 14 December. Photo credits: Alex Brenner.

And Britain's industrial revolution was fuelled by coal. (Getty Images: Hulton Archive) Alison Reeve, the deputy program director of energy and climate change at the Grattan Institute, ...

These acts led to the Glorious Revolution and, ultimately, his deposition. After James II deserted his post as king, Parliament sought to prevent a return of the turbulence—and Catholicism ...