| 1 | Introduction | No readings. |
| R1 | The 2011 Revolution in Egypt |
Washington Post Timeline of the Egyptian Revolution, January 2011 to June 2012. Reda, Hassan. An Egyptian Revolution Story. May 29, 2011. Youtube. Duration: ca. 11 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhD_cs-HhKw Pollock, John. "Streetbook: How Egyptian and Tunisian Youth Hacked the Arab Spring." MIT Technology Review, August 23, 2011. [El Rashidi] Chapters 3–5.
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| E1 | |
[El Rashidi] Chapters 1–2. National Public Radio Report – "Wael Ghonim: Creating a 'Revolution 2.0' in Egypt."
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| Unit 1: The American Revolution, 1763–1783 (Professor Wilder) |
| 2 | The American Revolution and the Problem of National History |
 Morgan, Edmund S. Chapters 3–4 in The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89. The University of Chicago Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780226537580. [Preview with Google Books]
Bailyn, Bernard. Chapter 3 in The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Belknap Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780674443020. [Preview with Google Books] Hofstadter, Richard. Chapter 1 in The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Vintage, 1954. ISBN: 9780394700090. Bancroft, George. History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. Charles Bowen, 1837, selection. Recommended Readings Beard, Charles Austin. An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution. Macmillan and Company, 1921. [Preview with Google Books] Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780195019865. [Preview with Google Books] Main, Jackson Turner. The Anti Federalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788. W. W. Norton and Company, 1974. ISBN: 9780393007602. [Preview with Google Books] Gipson, Lawrence Henry. The Coming of the Revolution, 1763–1775. Harper Torchbookss, 1962. Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. Vintage, 1998. ISBN: 9780679779087.
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| 3 | Britain's Fatal Triumph: The English Colonies, 1754–1765 |
Franklin, Benjamin. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind and the Peopling of Countries. BiblioLife, 2009. ISBN: 9781113348074. Stevens, Sylvester K., and Donald H. Kant, eds. Letters between General Jeffrey Amherst and Col. Henry Bouquet, 25 June-25 September, 1763. In The Papers of Col. Henry Bouquet. Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1943, pp. 203–77. Franklin, Benjamin. A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown, with Some Observations on the Same. Anthony Armbruster, 1764. Anonymous. The Conduct of the Paxton Men, Impartially Represented: With Some Remarks on the Narrative. Andrew Steuart, 1764. Recommended Readings Kenny, Kevin. Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780195331509. [Preview with Google Books] Fowler Jr., William. Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754–1763. Walker and Company, 2005, pp. 27–265. ISBN: 9780802714114. Anderson, Fred. Part 1 in Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of British North America, 1754–1766. Vintage, 2001. ISBN: 9780375706363. Jennings, Francis. Empires of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, & Tribes in the Seven Years War in America. W. W. Norton and Company, 1988. ISBN: 9780393025378. Dixon, David. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780806136561. [Preview with Google Books]
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| R2 | Recitation: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Warfare | No readings. |
| 4 | Race and Revolution: Slavery and the Roots of Colonial Independence |
Paine, Thomas. "African Slavery in America." Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, 8 March 1775. ———. Common Sense. Reprint Services Corporation, 1776. ISBN: 9780781247184. Recommended Readings Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780807847848. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. An Empire Divided; The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780812217322. [Preview with Google Books] Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870. Simon and Schuster, 1999. ISBN: 9780684835655. [Preview with Google Books] Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Harvard University Press, 2007. [Preview with Google Books] Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. Viking Adult, 2007. [Preview with Google Books] The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
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| 5 | A Manifesting Destiny: Transforming Colonists into Americans |
"The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America" (1776). Calloway, Colin G. Chapter 1 in The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780521471497. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Readings Steele, Ian K. Part III in Warpaths: Invasions of North America. Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780195082227. Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. [Preview with Google Books] Preston, David L. The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780803213692. [Preview with Google Books] Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. ISBN: 9780393334906.
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| 6 | A Violent Transfer of Sovereignty: The Birth of the United States |
Letters from General George Washington to Major General Sullivan, 31 May 1779, and General George Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, 20 October 1779. In The Writings of George Washington; Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; With a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations. Little, Brown, and Company, 1858, pp. VI: 264–7, and 382–6. Cook, Frederick, ed. "Journal of Lieut. Erkuries Beatty, of the 4th Penn Line," April 1779-October 1779. In Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan, 1779. Knapp, Peck, and Thomson, 1887. Exchanges between President George Washington and Corn Plant, Half Town, and Big Tree, chiefs and counselors of the Seneca Nation, dated 1790–1794. Recommended Readings Robertson, Lindsay G. Chapter 2 in Conquest by Law: How The Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780195148695. [Preview with Google Books] Banner, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. Harvard University Press, 2005. [Preview with Google Books] Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Harvard University Press, 2001. Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. Vintage, 1972. ISBN: 9780394716992. Graymont, Barbara. The Iroquois in the American Revolution. Syracuse University Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780815600831. Mann, Barbara Alice. George Washington's War on Native America. Praeger, 2005. ISBN: 9780275981778. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 7 | The New American Nation in a Turbulent Atlantic World |
Henry, Alexander Purdie. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Alexander Purdie, 1777. The Constitution of the United States of America. Barnes & Noble Inc, 1996. ISBN: 9780760700761. Selected letters on the revolutions in France and Saint Domingue. Stiles, Ezra. The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor: A Sermon, Preached before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L. L. D., Governor and Commander in Chief, and the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Convened in Hartford, at the Anniversary Election, May 8th, 1783. Thomas and Samuel Green, 1783. Recommended Readings Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. Penguin Classics, 1987. ISBN: 9780140444957. Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788. Simon and Schuster, 2010. ISBN: 9780684868547. [Preview with Google Books] Taylor, Alan. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution. Vintage, 2007. ISBN: 9781400077076. Trachtenberg, Alan. Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930. Hill and Wang, 2004. ISBN: 9780374299750.
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| R3 | Recitation: Is Revolution Contagious? | No readings. |
| Unit 2: The French Revolution |
| 8 | The Origins of the French Revolution: Local and Global Issues |
Paul, Beik, ed. Excerpts from the 1789 French "Lists of Grievances." In The French Revolution. Macmillan, 1970, pp. 45–63. Levy, Darlene G., Harriet B. Applewhite, and Mary D. Johnson, eds. "Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King." In Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795. University of Illinois Press, 1980, pp. 18–21. [Preview with Google Books] Hunt, Lynn. "The Global Financial Origins of 1789." In The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson. Cornell University Press, 2013, pp. 32–43. ISBN: 9780801478680. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Reading [Censer] Chapters 1, and 2: "Social Causes of the Revolution," and "Monarchy Embattled."
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| 9 | The Principles of 1789 |
[Doyle] pp. 19–64. Sieyès, Abbé. "Excerpts from the What is the Third Estate?" In University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Vol. 7. Edited by Keith M. Baker. University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 154–66. ISBN: 9780226069500. [Preview with Google Books] "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" (1789). "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen" (1791). "The Constitution of 1791". Recommended Reading [Censer] Chapters 3, and 4: "The Enlightenment and Human Rights," and "Paris and the Politics of Rebellion."
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| R4 | Recitation: The Parisian Crowd in 1789 |
Dawson, Philip, ed. "The Fall of the Bastille." In The French Revolution. Prentice-Hall, 1967, pp. 33–46. ISBN: 9780133312157. Levy, Darlene G., Harriet B. Applewhite, and Mary D. Johnson, eds. "Documents from the Women's March on Versailles" in October 1789." In Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795. Illinois, 1980, pp. 36–50. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Reading Rudé, George. "July 1789," and "The March to Versailles." In The Crowd in the French Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 45–79.
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| 10 | The Collapse of the Monarchy and the Terror, 1791–1794 |
[Mason] "Declaration of the King Addressed to All the French About His Flight From Paris." pp. 152–5. [Mason] "Instituting the Terror." pp. 225–32, and 236–43. Saint-Just. "Report to the Convention on Behalf of the Committee of Public Safety." In University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Vol. 7. Edited by Keith Michael Baker. University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 354–62. ISBN: 9780226069500. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Readings [Censer] Chapters 6, and 7: "The Monarchy Falls," and "War, Terror, and Resistance to the Revolution." Frank A. Kafker, et al. "Why Terror in 1793–1794?" In The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 5th ed. Krieger Publishing Company, 2002, pp. 185–226. ISBN: 9781575240923.
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| 11 | A Cultural Revolution? |
Baker, Keith Michael, ed. "The Civil Constitution of the Clergy." In University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Vol. 7. University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 239–42. ISBN: 9780226069500. [Preview with Google Books] (Excerpts)
[Mason] Documents on the "Civil Constitution of the Clergy," and "The Uprising in the Vendée." pp. 144–52, and 218–20. Baker, Keith Michael, ed. "A Cultural Revolution: "The Revolutionary Calendar"," and "The Festival of the Supreme Being." In University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Vol. 7. University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 362–8, and 384–91. ISBN: 9780226069500. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended Reading Frank A. Kafker, et al. "The Causes of the Vendée Revolt of 1793." In The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 5th ed. Krieger Publishing Company, 2002, pp. 155–83. ISBN: 9781575240923.
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| R5 | Recitation. Religion and the French Revolution. |
Bell, David A. "The Exterminating Angels." In The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007, pp. 154–85. ISBN: 9780618349654. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 12 | Endings and Beginnings |
[Doyle] pp. 65–97. [Mason] Documents on the Directory. pp. 281–91. Brown, Howard. "From Organic Society to Security State: The War on Brigandage in France, 1797–1802." Journal of Modern History 69, no. 4 (1997): 661–95. Blaufarb, Rafe, ed. "Documents on Napoleon's Civil Code and the Napoleonic Regime in Europe." In Napoleon: Symbol for an Age: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford Books, 2008, pp. 140–9, and 158–65. Lyons, Martyn. "The Napoleonic Empire: Collaboration and Resistance." In Napoleon Bonaparte and The Legacy of the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, 1994, pp. 244–59. ISBN: 9780312121235. Recommended Reading [Censer] Chapter 9: "The Napoleonic Experience."
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| R6 | Recitation: Comparing Revolutionary France (1789–1815) and Revolutionary Egypt (2011–2012) |
Steavenson, Wendell. "Who Owns the Revolution?" The New Yorker, 1 August, 2011. ———. "Radicals Rising," The New Yorker, 30 April, 2012.
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| Unit 3: The Haitian Revolution, 1784–1804 (Prof. Ghachem) |
| 13 | The Making of a Caribbean Plantation Colony: Slavery and Slave Revolts before the Revolution |
Casas, Bartolomé de las. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Penguin Classics, 1992, pp. 14–7. ISBN: 9780140445626. [Popkin] pp. 1–22. [D&G] pp. 49–62. Recommended Readings Garrigus, John. Chapters 1–7 in Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN: 9781403971401. [Preview with Google Books] Dubois, Laurent. Chapters 1–2 in Avengers of the New World. Belknap Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674013049. Geggus, David Patrick, and Norman Fiering, eds. Part I in The World of the Haitian Revolution. Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780253220172. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 14 | How did the Revolution in Haiti Begin? (I) The Free People of Color |
[Popkin] pp. 22–34. [D&G] pp. 67–85. Recommended Readings Garrigus, John. Chapter 8 in Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN: 9781403971401. [Preview with Google Books] Dubois, Laurent. Chapter 3 in Avengers of the New World. Belknap Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674013049.
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| R7 | Recitation: Debating the "Causes" of Revolution |
Geggus, David. "Saint-Domingue on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution." In The World of the Haitian Revolution. Edited by David Patrick Geggus, and Norman Fiering. Indiana University Press, 2009, pp. 3–20. ISBN: 9780253220172. [Preview with Google Books] Review John Pollock "Streetbook" article
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| 15 | How Did Revolution in Haiti Begin? (II) The Slave Revolts |
[Popkin] pp. 35–61. [D&G] pp. 86–94, and 99–107. Recommended Readings Dubois, Laurent. Chapters 4–5 in Avengers of the New World. Belknap Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674013049. [Preview with Google Books] Geggus, and Fiering, eds. Chapters 6–10 in The World of the Haitian Revolution. Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780253220172. [Preview with Google Books] Geggus, David. Chapters 5–6 in Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Indiana University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780253341044. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 16 | Final Freedom? The Abolition of Slavery in Haiti |
[Popkin] pp. 62–89. [D&G] pp. 115–6, 120–32, and 138–44. Recommended Readings Popkin, Jeremy D. "You Are All Free": The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780521731942. [Preview with Google Books] Dubois, Laurent. Chapters 6–7 in Avengers of the New World. Belknap Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674013049. [Preview with Google Books]
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| R8 | Recitation: Who Abolished Slavery in Haiti? |
Dubois, Laurent, and Julius S. Scott. "An African Revolutionary in the Atlantic World." In Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn. Edited by Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois, and Richard Rabinowitz. Giles, 2011, pp. 139–58. ISBN: 9781904832942. Recommended Readings Blackburn, Robin, and David Geggus. "Slavery, Emancipation, and Human Rights," and "Rights, Resistance, and Emancipation: A Response to Robin Blackburn." In Self- Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenmen. Edited by Kate E. Tunstall. Bloomsbury Academic, 2012, pp. 137–67. ISBN: 9781441185242. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 17 | The Road to Independence: Toussaint Louverture's Story |
[Popkin] pp. 90–128. [D&G] pp. 147–55, 167–70, and 184–5. Recommended Readings Bell, Madison Smartt. Toussaint Louverture. Vintage, 2008. ISBN: 9781400079353. Dubois, Laurent. Chapters 8–12 in Avengers of the New World. Belknap Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674013049. [Preview with Google Books]
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| 18 | Achieving Statehood: Haiti Among the Powers of the Earth |
[Popkin] pp. 128–54. [D&G] pp. 188–96. Recommended Readings Geggus, and Fiering, eds. Part III in The World of the Haitian Revolution. Indiana University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780253220172. [Preview with Google Books] Dubois, Laurent. Chapters 1–3 in Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Metropolitan, 2012.
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| R9 | Recitation. The United States and the Haitian Revolution |
[D&G] pp. 159–62, and 164–6. Scott, Rebecca J. "Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution." Law and History Review 29, no. 4 (2011): 1061–87.
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| Unit 4: Outcomes, Theories, Comparisons |
| 19 | From Radicals to Conservatives: The United States after 1802 |
Dangerfield, George. Chapter 2 in The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815–1828. Harper and Row, 1965. ISBN: 9781135578275. Jefferson, Thomas. "Second Inaugural Address." March 4, 1805.
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| 20 | The United States from African Colonization to Indian Removal, 1816–1838 |
Frelinghuysen, Thodore. Speech of Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 6, 1830, on the Bill for an Exchange of Lands with the Indians Residing in Any of the States or Territories, and for Their Removal West of the Mississippi. The Office of the National Journal, 1830. [Preview with Google Books] Madison, James. "Letter from James Madison to the Marquis de Lafayette, November 1826." In The Writings Of James Madison V9, 1819–1836: Comprising His Public Papers And His Private Correspondence (1910). Edited by Gaillard Hunt. Kessinger Publishing, 2010, pp. 261–66. ISBN: 9781167244780.
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| R10 | Recitation: Race and Revolutionary Nation Building | No readings. |
| 21 | The Marxist Interpretation of the French Revolution |
Marx, Karl. "Bourgeois and Proletarians." In The Communist Manifesto. Edited and with an introduction by John E. Toews. BrdfordStMartins, 1999, pp. 65–77. Soboul, Albert. "The French Revolution in the History of the Contemporary World." In The French Revolution: Recent Debates and Controversies. Edited by Gary Kates. Routledge, 1998, pp. 23–43. [Preview with Google Books] [Arendt] pp. 49–63. Recommended Reading Popkin, Jeremy D. A History of Modern France. 3rd ed. Pearson, 2005, pp. 115–50. ISBN: 9780131932937.
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| 22 | Panel Discussion: Hannah Arendt, "The Social Question" | [Arendt] pp. 63–105. |
| R11 | Recitation: The 21st Century: Global Meanings of the French Revolution |
Serna, Pierre. "Every Revolution is a War of Independence." In The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson. Cornell University Press, 2013, pp. 165–82. ISBN: 9780801478680. Coller, Ian. "Egypt in the French Revolution." In The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson. Cornell University Press, 2013, pp. 115–31. ISBN: 9780801478680.
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| 23 | Guest speaker: Yasmine el Rashidi |
Tadros, Samuel. "Egypt's Elections: Why the Islamists Won." World Affairs Journal (2012). [El Rashidi] "Egypt: The Rule of the Brotherhood," The New Yorker, February 7, 2013.
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| 24 | Comparing the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions | [Arendt] pp. 125–50, 156–60, and 186–91. |
| 25 | Authoritarianism, Poverty, and Foreign Intervention: Explaining Modern Haiti |
[Popkin] pp. 154–8, and 167–70. Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Picador, 2013, pp. 52–68, 84–8, and 104–18. ISBN: 9781250002365. [Preview with Google Books] Jr. Fatton, Robert. The Roots of Haitian Despotism. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, pp. 1–12. ISBN: 9781588265449. Recommended Reading James, Erica Caple. Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti. University of California Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780520260542. [Preview with Google Books]
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| R12 | Recitation: Violence, Freedom, and the Atlantic Revolutionary Tradition | [Arendt] pp. 207–16, 223–51, 259–61, and 267–73. |
| 26 | Revolution Today: Faculty and Student Discussion | Reading on Egypt TBA |
| 27 | Conclusion and Student Evaluations | No readings. |
