France: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

This "educational" Web site is a fine example of what can be done when technology serves, but does not control the presentation of "history".

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (2001) presents more than 600 primary documents and is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York). It is supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit it at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/.

Drs. Lynn Hunt, UCLA and Jack Censer, George Mason University, served as principal authors and editors of this vibrant and insightful exploration. Images, documents, songs, maps, and a timeline and glossary are provided. The twelve topical essays are "documented" with these formats. Songs are avaiable as text and in performance. Images are complemented by contextual information.

From the site: "Companion book and CD-ROM: A book and CD-ROM of the same name is available from Penn State University Press for $19.95. The book offers a brief but comprehensive narrative of the Revolution. The CD-ROM contains all the resources available on the Web and is particularly useful if you have a slower Web connection. It also includes multimedia overviews that are not available on the Web. "