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") // ") // Explore Browse Timeline About Project History FAQ Age of Revolutions Search using this query type: Keyword Boolean Exact match Search only these record types: Item File Collection Advanced Search (Items only) Search What You Can Find at This Site Do you need documents for a paper? Or images to illustrate greater understanding of critical decisions? Would you like a general introduction to the exciting events of the French Revolution? Or are you looking for inspiration? You can find any of these and so much more because this site includes 250 images, 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a timeline, and a glossary as well as 12 topical essays . Browse the collection Making sense of events For a deeper, contextual understanding of the French Revolution as a whole, this site provides a series of essays and links to external resources that cover all the main developments from 1787-1815. Alongside summaries of the revolution’s major periods, the essays also include more in-depth explorations of subjects ranging from women’s history to the complicated relationship between revolutionary ideals and slavery that was practiced in the French colonies. Explore the essays Do you want to study the connections between media in a period of upheaval? Or look at how a set of documents, visual prints, or songs represents and even reshapes the political debates of the time? The materials you need can be found here to study the relationships between different media as well as those between the media and the events depicted. Discover Research From Multiple Scholars You will also find links to essays by scholars on depictions of violence beyond the guillotine. Understand Where the Revolution Happened Do not overlook the maps because they provide a different kind of perspective on events. Visualize the Events of the Revolution The timeline can quickly reorient you if you are feeling lost in the revolution’s cascade of surprising twists and turns. This site 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...