Age of Revolution

Great awakening The First and Second Great Awakening are names given to two periods of religious revival that occurred over wide geograp...

Great Plains of North America The Great Plains of North America extend about 2,400 miles from parts of the Northwest Territories to Alb...

Greek War of Independence The Ottoman Empire had ruled all of Greece, with the exception of the Ionian Islands, since its conquest of t...

Guangxu (Kuang-hsu) Guangxu’s personal name was Zaitian (Tsai-t’ien). He was born in 1871 and chosen emperor by the dowager empress Cixi...

Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution represents one of the signal events of the age of revolution, reverberating across the Atlanti...

Abdul Hamid II Abdul Hamid II, who reigned 1876–1909, became sultan after his brother, Sultan Murad V, was deposed because of mental ill...

Alexander Hamilton Born in the British West Indies to parents who were not legally married, Alexander Hamilton surmounted his origins, b...