Sharing some everyday thoughts with students in my FAU history seminar in comparative history, Spring 2012. Please talk back!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Revolution Will be Forgotten?
I added to the wiki bibliography on the Haitian Revolution a fascinating web initiative called The Louverture Project. It is an open-source collaborative wiki/clearinghouse for primary source documents, images, links to archives and libraries, and all kinds of information that historians have uncovered in the past few decades--especially enhanced since the bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 and the tragedy of the 2010 earthquake (which included the near-destruction of the National Archives and the loss of many books and other documents). Is it possible that Trouillot's assertions that the Haitian Revolution remains "unthinkable" have been broken by this surge of scholarship? What do you think of the title of their proposed online narrative, "The Revolution Will be Forgotten"?
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