Experts explore the challenges and opportunities inherent in the study of the Haitian Revolution, a cataclysmic event that left a particularly complicated paper trail.
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January 2012
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SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 2: Adventures in the Archives—Discovering the Treasures of the Age of Revolution
January 21st, 2012
1 hour 6 minutes
Jeremy D. Popkin
Patrick Tardieu
Julia Gaffield
Ted Widmer (moderator)
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January 2012
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SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 3: The Caribbean and the United States in the Revolutionary Era
January 21st, 2012
1 hour 6 minutes
J. Michael Dash
Cathy Matson
Ashli White
Ira Berlin (moderator)
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Distinguished scholars of the Atlantic world outline the great swells of revolution and the counter-revolutionary undertow that swept across the Atlantic at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
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January 2012
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SYMPOSIUM: The Age of Revolution: A Whole History - Session 4: How Empires End…
January 21st, 2012
41 minutes 8 seconds
Jeremy Adelman
David Armitage
Thomas Bender (moderator)
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Experts examine the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions in the context of the Americas, where the last and early nineteenth-century phase of the Atlantic revolutions played out in Latin America, and in the largest context of all: Global History.
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December 2011
Audio
Civil War at Sea
December 13th, 2011
1 hour and 2 minutes
James M. McPherson
Craig L. Symonds
Harold Holzer
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Three prize-winning historians discuss the often-neglected naval history of the American Civil War.
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December 2011
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
December 8th, 2011
1 hour and 4 minutes
Niall Ferguson
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Niall Ferguson discusses his book, Civilization: The West and the Rest. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed?
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