A revolution is a forceful change in political power within a short period. It occurs when people revolt against the authority in power to change the constitution or modify the existing one. Revolution has different characteristics, and each of them has a role to play. One of the characteristics is...

History have proven time and again that when looking for the truth about what life was really like for members of a specific culture or society, the best place to start with the observations of an outsider. The image created by those who left behind their life in England to...

The French and Indian War happened between 1754 and 1763. It was started along the colonial boundaries in modern-day Pennsylvania. It was started as a simple boarder war, which Washington was sent to resolve this dispute, but it quickly escalated to a full battle between Washington and the French colonists...

Mao Zedong often emphasized the relationship between politics and war, as two sides of the same coin. Politics and violence must be present in the right balance -- if there were too much violence and not enough politics, the purpose of the revolutionary insurgency would be lost in an ever-escalating...

Was the American Revolution, revolutionary? The American Revolution was not in itself all that revolutionary, being rooted in ideals of democracy that were first determined in the city-states of ancient Greece, but the act of leaving Great Britain and the building of the colony may have been (Nash, 159-249). It...