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Resources for The American and French Revolutions and Napoleonic Period

The following are some materials that you can use to gain an understanding of The American Revolution.

These are Wikipedia* entries detailing the American Revolutionary War, The French Revolutionary Wars (1789-99 and 1848) and Napoleonic Europe.  These are all great starting points for getting a summary of the events and for locating resource lists on the topics.

History.com coverage of the American Revolution.  This site has a number of videos reenacting the events of the period to help give you perspective.

Revolutionary War Timeline with links to events during that timeline at US History.org.

The American Revolution covered by PBS.

History.com coverage of the French Revolutions. 

Discovering the French Revolution at George Mason University.

French Revolution and Napoleonic Period Sourcebook at Fordham University.

*A note on the inclusion of Wikipedia:  Most likely to get an overview of the wars in this course you will look at the Wikipedia entry regardless of how the entries are viewed by the academy so they are included here in each war's section.  The main point of the inclusion of the Wikipedia entries is to point you to their phenomenal reource lists, in the form of reference lists, bibliographies, and further reading lists, that you can certainly utilize to help build your knowledge of any of the wars discussed in this course.  This is in keeping with the point of this LibGuide, which is to provide you with resources on the topics of this course.  Wikipedia does this smartly.  However, it is up to your professor as to how you can use the entry beyond using it as a resource list.  Refer to the professor and/or the course syllabus for instructions there. 

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