HIST 289 - Revolutionary Paris, 1791

4 credit(s)
What was it like to participate in the French Revolution? In this class you will take part in a historical role-playing exercise, complete with gamebook, speeches, and other activities. Each student will be assigned a character and will speak, write, strategize, and scheme as a way to understand the past. Students will engage with the predominant intellectual, political, and ideological currents of revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791 as the National Assembly struggled to write a constitution amidst growing internal conflict and the threat of foreign invasion.