I got a 4 on the exam 3 years ago thanks to your videos and now I’m halfway done my history degree and they’re still helpful :’)

2:21 rip headphone users

As a college history teacher I think this emphasis on memorization so prevalent in high school History classes doesn't do students any favors. I think they benefit a lot more having a teacher that makes history fun and applicable to their own lives that's more valuable. Clearly you are one of those Mr Richey. Keep it up. 😊

Thanks for this video, Matt Damon.

Not taking any exams over this stuff (not a high school student nor a history major) but still love these videos. Thanks Tom

Sir ..i am a student from INDIA..i am very thankful to you..your videos have enlightened me...these are best videos to get insights and wholesome perspective about the themes behind events occurring in European history..they develop yur basics strong ..i am very thankful to you ...

I love you man. I'm writing a history essay on the topic of the revolutions but all I was able to do was gather different random events from sources that explain them vaguely. Then you came along and put together all the pieces of the puzzle. Thank you so much

Tom, I'll have you know I survived the AP without too many tears shed :) Thank you so much for all the time and work you have put into your videos, they really helped me study and get through the year.

Hey Tom! Just wanted to thank you for the awesome videos. :) Just took my AP Exam this previous Friday and these helped my review immensely. Coincidentally enough, I got a question on Gustavus Adolphus and I knew it because of your videos. :P

Thank you so much! Finally I found someone who is not speaking too fast. And I also love the length, not too long but not too short either - perfect. Have a nice day, greetings from the Czech republic!

I am just a history buff, (not studying for AP History) but I find these videos very interesting, and fodder for reading material ... please keep up the great videos

Most comments here at pretty old but I just wanted you to know that this is still incredibly helpful in 2020. Needed context for Marx's 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, this was perfect. Thank you ❤️

I used to watch your videos all the time while i was back in High School 6 or so years ago while i was back home in America. They saved me many times during my AP courses! Since then i’ve moved to france and i found your video while searching for the French revolution of 1848, very helpful! BTW i love your french pronunciation!

Greetings from Great Britain. A cup of tea and a Tom Richey lecture, perfect.

I love you tom Richey, thank u for helping me get through ap euro at the moment

Thanks for all the great vids especially the ones on philosophy! They helped so much on the test and in class

I heard Napoleon II died young from some illness or something. Thank you SO much for making these lectures, I'm a History college student from Portugal and I sent your videos to my classmates to revise for the Contemporany History test. Your videos are fantastic and super useful. Also, you're an awesome teacher. Keep the good job! Greetings from Lisbon ^-^

Great video! Love brushing up on Euro, even though I currently teach early US. Yeah, the French changed governments like Taylor Swift changes boyfriends! :)

[4:02] In re red flags: just wanted to point out that red flags were also a common (though not universal) military symbol to the enemy of "No quarter."

I'm reading Lenin's State and Revolution and wanted some context for the section on "The Experience of 1848-51". Thanks for the help with my political education Tom

Ap test friday, these vids make me feel more prepared with each

If I'm not mistaken, Napoleon II was Napoleon's son. Napoleon wanted to make him his heir before being exiled to Elba, but they wouldnt let him. So technically, he was Emperor for the short interlude between Napoleon asking about making him his heir and his proposal then being rejected.

Thank you for this video!! Helped me a lot!

amazing content I learned so much, thank you!

Thank you so much! my exam is precisely on this subject today!!!! You're awesome (from Switzerland) :)

Hi Tom, Would you be able to do something about America, carter and the fall of the shah in iran? Maybe how the US were involved.. or maybe their missteps to dealing with the Situation. That would be an interesting topic to cover, if you already have background information on it. I love your informative videos. Thanks for sharing them and helping us understand these important topics. :-)

I watch these for fun because these videos are so easy to follow and it makes you want to actually learn more. Yay for Tom!

Your videos or the most helpful thing for my exam thank you

Thank you so much for making these videos. They make my studying infinitely easier

Please could you do a series on the Worlds of the British Empire or perhaps far earlier and do Medieval Europe, all your content focalizes on early modern europe

You rock!! big time :)

In 9:57, you talk about how the French Revolution of 1948 is a typical revolution. Can you please name some other revolutions that might have some similarities with this revolution? Thx.

This has been really fantastic, thank you so much. I'm teaching abroad with no resources, and this has been so helpful for clarifying various positions and sides.

Mr. Richey. Thanks for all the great euro videos. I probably watched all of them before the exam. On the exam, I feel like I did fairly well on the multiple choice, really well on the dbq, but somewhat struggled on the 2 frqs. I think I got at least a 4. Do u think I have a chance of getting a 5?

When you say work through the democratic process, (5:20) what do you mean?

Louis Blanc was one of the most important visionaries of this revolution, in my opinion. He was not merely idealistic, but pragmatic. It was a time when many people were blown by every wind of doctrine, but he looked at practical solutions to common problems. He also had his failures. He could not seem to implement his ideas quick enough to gain support. Much of this was because of lack of funding fast enough. His political rivals were let off the hook, so to speak, in that Blanc could not consistently deal with his opponents. Perhaps he was preoccupied with his own projects. Public relations campaigns were not one of his strengths. The assembly was more concerned with the volatile working class than cooperating with the policies of Blanc. If he could have established his programs to a greater extent and been better skilled at propaganda to showcase them, then he probably would have been a success. In the end, he had truly revolutionary ideas for the time, but could not win and maintain the hearts and minds of the French. France simply was not ready for the socialist ideas of Louis Blanc in their impatience and Blanc himself worsened the situation with a few deficiencies in his administration.

Very well-done video. Brilliantly articulated. The February 22 banquet that was cancelled by Guizot, can you provide a source that George Washington's birthday was the occasion for the event? Not that I disbelieve you, but I've not read that. But I have to disagree with you saying the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with respect to Napoleon III. He actually did fall pretty far. Empires set aside, under Napoleon I when the French Army marched through Europe, they brought with them the ideals of Enlightenment and the rights of man with them. Many of the artists and thinking in the former First Reich including Beethoven were ardent Bonapartists. As for Napoleon III on the contrary, his empire was the foundation of French imperialism, a force of reaction that included covertly supporting the Confederacy in the American Civil War and waging his brutal war against Mexico that could have altered the course of the Civil War had he conquered Mexico.

Very helpful and simple to understand!

Great video except for the Red Flag you did an anachronism; in 1848 it was the symbol of socialism and not communism. It's not before the episode of the Commune of Paris in 1871 that the communists will use it as a symbol for communism with the hammer and sickle added. On the painting, if you look closely at the red flag, "Republique" is written on it therefore what is shown is Lamartine simply refusing to use the socialist's political party flag as the national one, you can find the reference in his memoires "Three months in Power" (Trois mois au pouvoir) however I am not sure if the book was translated in English. Even today in France, red = socialism but not communism (and yes we under the 5th Republique since 1958) As for Napoleon II, when his father abdicated even though he declared his son as his heir, the opponents refused to acknowledge Napoleon II as Emperor and put Louis XVIII on the throne, thus Napoleon only reigned for a few weeks. He lived in Austria onwards and became Duke of some province and died there a few decades later. Louis-Bonaparte became Napoleon III as a way to acknowledge his cousin's short reign.

Thanks, this was helpful context for jumping into Marx' 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. You are pretty hilarious.

Thanks for your helpful videos

I think this video is good but is definitely oversimplified and it's important to remember that. I would recommend looking the revolution up on Britannica.com for more.

Mr. Richey, can you tell me more about what kind of situation was Spain in during 1848? Thanks.

2:21 I was falling asleep to Tom Richey. Not anymore.

i love this guy

I am so relieved that I am done with the exam but I really want to know what I got

Great video. The divide between socialist urban areas and conservative rural areas is more pronounced than ever today. Here in the US and everywhere. Puts things in context. Will it always be that way?

great video !!!

Really bummed that there was only a few questions on the Revs. Of 1848 on the actual exam.

Mr.Richey if I'm not wrong the 1848 revolution is the inspiration of Victor Hugo's Le Mis right

Is it weird that I'm not using this for an exam but for an Allternate History scenario?

There is very little information on the different French governments. Like, there is very little information on the Bourborne restoration and the July monarchy and how they compare.

just a little correction... Liberal in European (our) kind of way means you believe in law - a.k.a. constitution. the term "liberal" was first used for people who believed that the king should not be above the law and what he says should not be law, so king would have to work through the network of already existing laws and consult and write laws just like a parlament in a democracy would have to. In most cases that means that they wanted their states to have constitution, that the king would not be free to change at will and that way it guaranteed equal law enforcement in any case. Conservatie liberal in this context is somebody who believes in constitution, but not really in all-in democracy or republic, they want to stick with the monarch, but otherwise they do want a constitution.

Welcome to the Matt Damon History Channel!

you should do voice acting! you have a very distinct voice

Tom Richey, when is your birthday?

awesome videos.

much help, thanks a lot!

Well Napoleon III was a representant of the conservative, but he was also very progressive. He even wrote a book : "Extinction of pauperism" which is kind of close to socialism.

Wow u r something else

Biggest problem people had with Louis Philippe is that hardly anyone had the vote. No more than maybe 250,000 had the vote. Also French people had been watching developments in parliamentary reform closely, and over there around 17% of men had the vote under the Great Reform Act of 1832. But it was more like 2% in France. But Louis Philippe wouldnt dream of allowing that in France. He also fell out with Lafayette (who participated in bringing him to power in 1830 revolution) when he introduced censorship of the press.

Bless u tom richey

You: talking about The Law Me: uuuuuuuuuuuugh my god what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~

2:31 month/day/year? Really?

Napoleon II was the son of Napoleon I, and when Napoleon I abdicated...well, his son became de facto the new emperor. It's a Louis XVII-like thing

Now i see why he put this in his rap collection. Hehehe

Your voice is very easy to listen to. I love the accent.

you bear a striking resemblance to Hilary Swank

Long live the June days uprising!

could a conservative liberal be called a moderate?

was hoping to find out how marx tied in to this. the communist manifesto wad the same year right?

Uniquement..en. français...

youre auburn high school 3rd block white day's legend

napoleon II, the lil king of rome, died on austria.

I believe napolean the second was beaten to death before he made anything of himself

Don’t raise your Voice in between pleaseeee

that depend the way they choosing people to be a head of the gouvernement...example:2000-20009 a lot of victim innocents plus families irritation please SIR...did we never visiting a shelter ABUSE taxes ? Sir

Great video! Though, I thought that the liberals didn't like Louis Philippe because they were constantly worried he would launch a royalist coup? Which wasn't the most far fetched idea at the time, considering he was very pro-authoritarianism, and dissolved chambers that opposed him and try to rig votes going against him (one reason for the invasion of Algeria was it pandered to the desire for French Conquest which came after Napoleón). Also he threw out free speech and shut down all press that wasn't supporting him, and adjust voting laws to make the possible voters as conservative (though I think ultra-royalist would be better maybe?) as possible (also the law of the double vote, which basically gave rich land owners two votes if I recall). Please correct me if I'm wrong =)

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Replace red flag with red hat.

Can he be my teacher pls

TOM STOP PLEASE

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Wow. If only the DNC and past democratic candidate watched this video!

What the hell are you screaming for. I almost crashed my car

George Washing is an awful person to celebrate - slave owner, genocidal, misogynistic amongst other characteristics. It's important to point these things out rather than refer to him in positive terms! And thanks for the video! I learned a lot :)

you seem to think this was much more about America and George Washington than it was... climb out of your arse for a min and look around America, there's a whole world out here

les miserables

This is why I HATE Socialism & Communism. It is not the government's job to support (financially) nor provide employment to the unemployed!!!! Get off your bottom & apply for a job... Promote yourself... Geez!!!!

you take a lot of time to get into the main topic. it becomes boring you know.....

Mr. Richey, I love ya, but your French is horrible. But I understand completely, it took me years to fine-tune my French accent. Best Regards, from a fellow historian.