Susan Dunn Books
Sister revolutions
By Susan Dunn
"Although both revolutions professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice, there were dramatic differences. The Americans were content to preserve many aspects of their En...
Read MoreJefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism
By Susan Dunn
"The election of 1800 was a revolution in the modern sense of a radical new beginning, but it was also a revolution in the sense of a return to the point of origin: the principles of 1776. Federali...
Read MoreThe deaths of Louis XVI
By Susan Dunn
The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To roya...
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