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I. Standard Accounts of Revolution
United States:
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
Edward Countryman, The American Revolution.
Gary S. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005).
France:
William Doyle, Oxford History of the French Revolution.
Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution.
Haiti:
Laurent Dubois, Avengers f the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Harvard/Belknap, 2004).
Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution From Below (Knoxville: University of Tennesse Press, 1990).
David Patrick Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
II. Reference Works
Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole (eds.), A Companion to the American Revolution (2000)
F. Furet and M. Ozouf (eds), Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989)
You can also browse the Wells Library Reference Reading Room: for the American Revolution, call numbers E201-E298; for the French Revolution, DC139-DC249, and for Latin America (for references to Haiti), F1401 - F2161
III. Searching for secondary sources
In IUCAT, try these terms in a Subject Search
united states history revolution
united states politics and government 1775-1783
france history revolution
france politics and government 1789-1815
haiti history revolution
haiti politics and government 1791-1804
Use the Advanced Keyword Search screen to combine a subject search and a keyword search, or add the term "sources" as an additional subject term (to find primary source materials on the subject). To find textbooks on US history, try "united states history" as subject, and one of the following textbook publishers as keyword: McGraw Hill, Pearson, Norton, Houghton Mifflin, Thomas Learning, Harper Collins, Bedford Freeman and Worth.
To find articles in scholarly journals, search America: History & Life (for the American Revolution and Haiti) or Historical Abstracts (for France and Haiti)
IV. Online resources
Transnational:
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
United States:
Evans Digital Edition - digital archive of books and pamphlets published in North America, 1639-1795
Early American Newspapers Series I, II, III, IV & V - digital archive of North American newspapers, 1690-1876
Library of Congress digital collections: American Memory / Constitutional Congress, George Washington Papers / Revolution
Library of Congress online exhibits: Building the Capitol, Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
University of Oklahoma College of Law: Chronology of US Historical Documents
Early Americas Digital Archive
National Constitution Center
PBS Africans in America: Revolution
France:
ARTFL - searchable full text of the Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, a key work of the French Enlightenment (in French)
Gallica - digitized collections from the Bibliotheque Nationale (National Library) of France (Mostly but not all in French)
British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution - a selection--search the Times Digital Archive for more
Dress and Fashion in the Revolutionary Period
Liberty, Equality Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Notes et archives 1789-1794 - extensive online reference work on the French Revolution (in French)
Haiti:
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina) / biographies of Toussaint L'Ouverture
Look for Haitian material in Early American Newspapers Series I, II, III, IV & V, Gallica, and Times Digital Archive |
