The American and French Revolution

World History

Stinger

The top picture is Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by German artist Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze. The Bottom picture is Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugene Delacroix.

1. What may have affected Leutze’s interpretation of the American revolution?

2. What may have affected Delacroix’s interpretation of the French revolution?

3. Identify three ways in which the interpretations are similar.

4. Identify three ways in which the interpretations are different.

5. What is the role of enlightenment ideas in both revolutions.

Are these events related?

Timeline of the French Revolution

Thinking about historical interpretation

• What caused the French Revolution? • The American revolution? • The Enlightenment? • Social Pressure? • Financial Pressures? • War with foregin state?

• What might cause different historians to come to different conclusions? • Beliefs • Points-of-View• Perspectives• Sources • Questions

The importance of analyzing the source

• Speaker- What do you know about the person or organization who wrote or sponsored this information?

• Occasion- When and Why was this written? What inspired someone to write about this event?

• Audience- For whom was this material written? How does that change how the information is presented?

• Purpose- Why was this written? How does that change how the information is presented?

• Subject- What is the piece about? How does that change the interpretation? • Tone- What kind of emotion does the writer put into the piece? Why? What is he

trying to do to your interpretation of the piece? • So What?- How does this information change the way you perceive the piece?

Articles- Please Soapstones your article

• Speaker-

• Occasion-

• Audience-

• Purpose-

• Subject-

• Tone-

• So What?

Articles- Step two

• Discuss the Soapstones acticity with a partner who read the same article.

• With that partner, underline anything that is discernible as historical fact (you should argue about this a little). • Dates • Names • Data • This that are provable by data

Articles- Step Three

• Find a group of people who read the other 4 articles

• Compare which facts were included in each of the articles• Remember that part of the editorial bias in historical writing

involves which facts to include, where they are placed in the piece, not just how they are interpreted.

• Which facts were included in multiple articles?

• Compare the sources

• Compare the interpretations

Exit Ticket

•How did the where the article came from affect the conclusion to which the article came? •What that based on perspective, point-of-view, beliefs, questions, or primary sources? •Which source was the most reliable, dependable, or valid? Why?