The Enlightenment
Janet L. Kell
Jackson High School
Kent State University
The Enlightenment
Grade 9
Social Studies / World History
The Enlightenment

This pathfinder contains resources for a research project on the Enlightenment involving the philosophers of the Enlightenment and the enduring effects of their works on the political, economic and cultural history of the world.

Dewey Numbers to be consulted:

100; 109; 190; 320.973; 703; 709.4; 759.6; 780.3; 820.9; 909.7; 920; 940.2; 944.04; 980;B
Subject Headings:
Philosophers; Philosophy; Art -- Dictionaries; Art -- Encyclopedias; Art -- History;
Artists -- Biography; Composers -- Biography; Music-- Bio-bibliography; Authors, English -- Biography; Renaissance; France b History --1789-1815;
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; United States b History -- Sources; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Latin America -- History; Latin America b History -- To 1830; Individual names.

GENERAL RESOURCES
Books:
Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit : Gale, 1998.
Web Sites:
Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The European Enlightenment
Internet Modern History Sourcebook b Enlightenment
Videos:
The Age of Reason: Europe After the Renaissance (1700 to 1870). VHS. Annenberg/CPB, 1989. 23 min.

PHILOSOPHERS
Books:
Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit : Gale, 1998.

Kenny, Anthony. A Brief History of Western Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

World Philosophers and Their Works. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2000
INFOhio Databases:
Encyclopedia Britannica
Web sites:
16th b 18th Century Philosophers
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Assembled Philosophers
The Window b Philosophers
Readings in Modern Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Abridged Table of Contents
Videos:
Western Tradition: Modern Philosophers. VHS. Annenberg/CPB, 1989. 28 min.

DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Books:
Bruun, Erik and Jay Crosby. Our Nation's Archive: Key Documents, Opinions, Speeches, Letters, and Songs That Shaped Our Nation. New York :Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999.

Commager, Henry Steele, ed. Documents of American history. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.

Heffner, Richard D. A Documentary History of the United States. New York,: New American Library, 1991.

Kenyon, Cecelia M.. ed. The Antifederalists. Boston: Northeastern University Press,1966.

Quinn, Frederick, ed. The Federalist Papers Reader and Historical Documents of Our American Heritage. Santa Ana, Calif.: Seven Locks Press, 1997.

INFOhio Databases:
Annals of American History
Web Sites:
Charters of Freedom
Core Documents of U. S. Democracy
Our Documents b 100 Milestone Documents

REVOLUTIONS
Books:
The Age of Revolution. San Diego :Greenhaven, 2002.

Andrews, Charles McLean. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution; Four Essays in American Colonial History. New Haven: H. Milford, 1931.

Best, Geoffrey. War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870.
Montreal, Quebec ; Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.

Braeman, John. The Road to Independence; a Documentary History of the Causes of the American Revolution: 1763-1776. New York :Putnam, 1963.

Cheney, Glenn Alan. Revolution in Central America. New York: Franklin Watts, 1984.

Church, William Farr. The Influence of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution: Creative, Disastrous, or Non-existent? Boston: Heath, 1964.

Commager, Henry Steele. The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Rnlightenment. Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.

Corzine, Phyllis. The French Revolution . San Diego, Calif.: Lucent, 1995

Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Harvey, Robert. Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000.

Herring, Hubert. A History of Latin America from the Beginnings to the Present. New York: Knopf, 1961

Hibbert, Christopher. The Days of the French Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 1999.

Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation; A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776. New York: Oxford University Press,1968.

Keen, Benjamin. A History of Latin America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

Madariaga, Salvador de. The Fall of the Spanish American Empire. New York: Macmillan, 1948.

Martin, Rheta and Gabriel H. Lovett. Encyclopedia of Latin-American History. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.

Matthews, Andrew. Revolution and Reaction: Europe, 1789-1849. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Nardo, Don, editor. The French Revolution . San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1999.

Roberts, J.M. , ed. The Illustrated History of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Rude, George. The French Revolution. New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.

Stearns, Peter N. 1848 : The Revolutionary Tide in Europe. New York: Norton, 1974.

Winds of Revolution, TimeFrame AD 1700-1800. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1990.

Wright, Esmond. A Time for Courage: The Story of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Putmam, 1971.
Web Sites:
Freedom or Death b Revolution: A Provocative Exploration of the French Revolution.
The Idea of America
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution.
4 Independence Movements
Videos:
The American Revolution ; The American Republic. VHS. Annenberg/CPB, 1989.
60 min.

The Buried Mirror: The Price of Freedom. VHS. CARLEX, 1991. 59 min.

The French Revolution: The Revolution Continues . VHS. EVN, 1992. 26:07 min.

The French Revolution: Origins . VHS. EVN, 1992. 21:06 min


CULTURE
Books:
The Book of Art: A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. New York: Grolier,1965.

Ewen, David. Great Composers, 1300-1900: A Biographical and Critical Guide. New York: Wilson, 1966.

Grove, George. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1954.

Kunitz, Stanley. British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Wilson, 1936.

Kunitz, Stanley. European Authors, 1000-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of European Literature. New York : Wilson, 1967.

Kunitz , Stanley J. and Howard Haycraft. British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Wilson, 1952.

Landi, Ann. Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art. New York: Schirmer Reference, 2001.

Lives and Works in the Arts : From the Renaissance to the 20th Century.
Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 1997.

Myers, Bernard Samuel, ed. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. New YorK: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

Praeger Encyclopedia of Art. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971.

Ward, Adolphus and A. R. Walter. The Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: The University Press, 1932. (v. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. v. 12-14. The Nineteenth Century)
Databases:
INFOhio Databases:
AMICO
Encyclopedia Britannica
Jackson Databases:
Gale Student Resource Center Bronze
Web Sites:
Artcyclopedia
The Classical Music Pages
Classical Music Archives
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum
Web Gallery of Art
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Composers
WWW Resources for English and American Literature
Videos:
Eighteenth-Century Art and Music. VHS. Clearvue/EAV, 1986. 35 min.

Great Composers and Their Music: Volume I & II. VHS. Clearvue/EAV, 1990. 42 min.; 43 min.

History Through Literature: Industry and Enlightenment (1730 to 1820). Clearvue/EAV, 1998. 26 min.

History Through Literature: Romanticism and Revolution (1770 to 1870.) VHS. Clearvue/EAV, 1998. 22:50 min.

Johann Sebastian Bach. VHS. Library Video Company, 1996. 35 min.

Joseph Haydn. VHS. Library Video Company, 1996. 35 min.

Ludwig Van Beethoven. VHS. Library Video Company, 1996. 35 min.

Western Tradition: Enlightenment & Society. VHS. Annenberg/CPB Project, 1989. 28 min.

Western Tradition: Revolution & Romantics. VHS. Annenberg/CPB,1989. 28 min.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. VHS. Library Video Company, 1996. 35 min.