I don't love the Statue of Liberty. Can I say that? I don't love the — I like liberty. I like true liberty. I love America. I ...

the intellectual origins of the French Revolution; intellectual encounters with the New World; the concept of a Counter-Enlightenment; and the move from a private to a public sphere of cultural ...

The ideas of this Scottish Enlightenment are exported to the colonies and fan the flames of revolution against the evils and cruelties of Empire.

It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy. Today, the fortress is no more, but the square remains a ...