Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, With 12 Topical Essays, 250 Images, 350 Text Documents, 13 Songs, 13 Maps, a Timeline, and a Glossary.

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  • Social Causes of the Revolution
  • Monarchy Embattled
  • The Enlightenment and Human Rights
  • Paris and the Politics of Rebellion
  • Women and the Revolution
  • Monarchy Falls
  • War, Terror and Resistance to the Revolution
  • Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
  • The Napoleonic Experience
  • Legacies of the Revolution
  • Songs
  • How to Read Images

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  • Timeline
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New: Imaging the French Revolution

This site with more than 600 primary documents is a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities