About This Collection
Revolution and Protest Online is a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements. This easily searchable collection examines the most studied and important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the 21st century. This collection includes over 180 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials (personal papers, organizational and government documents, journals, books, reports, videos, monographs, and speeches), and more than 1,000 images. Content is provided by preeminent historical archives as well as video partners. The collection also provides links to websites that offer background for the curated primary sources and documentaries.
Revolution and Protest Online is organized around more than thirty events and areas, representing a variety of time periods, regions, and topics. They include:
American Revolution of 1776
Arab Spring
Chinese Communist Revolution, 1925-1949
The Civil Rights Movement
Cuban Revolutions of 1848 and 1953
Fédon’s Rebellion of 1795
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
India Civil Disobedience & Independence
Iranian Revolutions of 1953 & 1979
Russian Revolutions of 1905 & 1917
…and much more.
The themes in the collection include:
Documentation of Crimes
Gender Revolutions
Guerilla Movements
Independence Movements
Indigenous Movements
Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency
Labor Movements
Non-violent Movements and Revolutions
Political Movements
Protest Art
Slave Rebellions
Student Movements
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
National Archives, Kew: 30 collections selected by curators, documenting major and lesser known revolutionary movements from the 18th to 21th century
University of London: Latin American pamphlets documenting revolutionary movements in the second half of the 20th century
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University: eight cases, including student guides to the Cuban Revolution, Iranian Revolution, Nicaragua, Indonesia and the Arab Spring
WGBH Educational Foundation: Activist video testimonials with both conservative and liberal perspectives
Bridgeman Images and selections of books from Cambridge UP, Columbia UP, Cornell UP, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Indiana UP and more
The project is curated with assistance from an advisory board of respected scholars in the field.
Advisory Board
Baz Dreisinger
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/baz-dreizinger
Vernon Burton
Professor of History; Director of the Clemson Cyberinstitute, Clemson University
Catherine Filloux
Playwright, Social Justice
Cathia Jenainati
English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
Eugenia Palieraki
Latin American Studies, University of Cergy-Pontoise
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