http://h-france.net/fffh/maybe-missed/jewish-muslim-romance-with-a-french-twist-jean-jacques-zilbermanns-hes-my-girl/ A recent wave of scholarship has challenged the idea that French Jews and Muslims are natural enemies. In her 2014 study Muslims and . . .

When the general public thinks of the Enlightenment, they often imagine it as the source of the liberating ideas of les droits de l’homme. In this classic view, there is a direct line between the development of Enlightenment thinking in the middle of . . .

http://h-france.net/fffh/classics/if-this-is-a-woman-evelyne-trouillots-the-infamous-rosalie-and-the-lost-stories-of-new-world-slavery/ How then can scholars learn about slaves’ everyday life in the French colonies? Slavery offers an extreme example o . . .

"Haiti lies only six hundred miles from Florida. . . .Considering its neighborhood, its strategic location, and its unique character as the only self-constituted negro republic in the world, it is remarkable that the land and its people should be so l . . .

In recent decades, scholars have paid increasing attention to the Haitian Revolution. Yet while numerous films have been made on other revolutions, the Haitian Revolution still suffers from neglect. The American actor/director Danny Glover has sought . . .

Before his untimely death in July 2012, Michel-Rolph Trouillot was one of the most original and thoughtful voices in academia. His writings influenced scholars worldwide in many fields, from anthropology to history to Caribbean studies. He also wrote . . .

Somewhat surprisingly, no films deal directly with the Haitian Revolution – although a biopic on Toussaint Louverture is in the works. All the same Burn! transparently alludes to it, and Les caprices d’un fleuve, set in a slave-trading port in Africa, . . .

It has become a commonplace of scholarship on the French Revolution that the Jacobins sought to exclude women from political and intellectual life. Even as recent work has noted that the Revolution improved women's status in areas such as divorce,' th . . .

The author writes about her doctoral thesis, a biography of French Revolution-era Catholic priest Henir Gregoire. She discusses some of the advantages of the biographical approach to history, as well as some of the advantages to studying certain non-J . . .

In the last twenty years, transnational and Atlantic histories have become popular paradigms among historians in the United States as scholars have seen the benefits of looking across national borders when studying topics from slavery to the internati . . .