Morant Bay Rebellion: Did you mean...?

The Antinomian Controversy (1636-1638) was a religious-political conflict that divided the Massachusetts Bay Colony of New England in the 17th century. The disagreement, also...

The Olive Branch Petition was a letter adopted by the Second Continental Congress on 5 July 1775 and sent to King George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820) in a final attempt at reconciliation in the early months of the American...

The 1857-8 Sepoy Mutiny (aka Sepoy Rebellion, Indian Mutiny, The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) was a failed rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company (EIC) in India. Initially a mutiny of the Indian...

The Bloody Tenent of Persecution (original title, The Bloody Tenenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience) is a 1644 CE book by the Puritan separatist Roger Williams (l. 1603-1683 CE) which is best...

Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany in France stands the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the...

This antique map of India illustrates the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. It was published by J. Barthelemier, successor to Ch. Picquet. The map provides a...

The Tyrolean militia returns from war during Tyrol's rebellion against Napoleon in 1809, during the War of the Fifth Coalition. Oil on canvas by Franz Defregger, 1876. Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin.

Map showing the Yellow Turban Rebellion (184 CE).

Artist's impression of Zhang Bao and The Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Enslaved people resisted their condition in a range of different ways. Oftentimes those ways were small and personal. There were also times when that resistance took on larger, more dramatic...