Tools for exploring the Atlantic revolutions, comparative causes of political upheaval, and decolonization movements — drawn from MIT OCW and H-Net H-LatAm curricula.
Pick two Atlantic revolutions and compare causes, ideologies, and outcomes. How did the Haitian Revolution challenge the logic of the French? Why did Latin American independence produce different regimes?
Pick a founding document and trace who was included in its proclamations of liberty, who was excluded, and what that exclusion reveals about the revolution's actual social program.
Pick a revolution and trace the structural conditions that made it possible — economic grievance, political exclusion, ideological challenge to the regime, and state weakness or overreach.
Pick a region and trace how colonized peoples won independence — negotiation, armed struggle, Cold War leverage, international pressure, and the different forms independence took.
Read about a revolutionary aftermath and trace what happened next: who consolidated power, where the revolution was betrayed, what the reaction produced, and what patterns recur across different cases.
