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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

In contrast, Zakaria’s enthusiasm for the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England is boundless. ... “While the workers of industrial Britain were exploited and poorly treated,” he argues, ...