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Politics of Transparency and Secrecy: Revisiting the French Revolution

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This year marks the 230th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution. Over the course of a ten-year period, revolutionary France experimented with new political visions such as constitutional monarchy, republicanism, representative politics and semi-democratic elections. Dr. Katlyn Carter, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan will talk to us about how the French Revolution pervades contemporary political life as well as on her book manuscript, the use of secrecy vs. the ideal of transparency and the craft of the historian.

18th Century, 19th Century

The Life and Times of Taole

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On June 16, 1774, James Cook became the first European to catch sight of a tiny coral island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Navigators from Samoa and Tonga had settled Niue, as the island is known today, as early as 900 CE. Cook attempted to land in Niue no fewer than three times,… MORE

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Sailors and Slaves

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During the eighteenth century, maritime culture throughout the Atlantic world was pulsating. Unlike the nineteenth century, in which men increasingly turned attention Westward during the expansion of the United States, men of the eighteenth century went to sea in substantial numbers. Historian Daniel Vickers asserts that unlike popular memory’s image of mid-nineteenth century seamen who… MORE

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