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Jeremy D. Popkin

Jeremy D. Popkin holds the William T. Bryan chair of history at the University of Kentucky.  He has published A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution and several other books on the French and Haitian revolutions.

Magazine Article

The Storming of the Bastille Led to Democracy but Not for Long

The Crowd, the Crown, and What Came After

Jeremy D. Popkin

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