Projects

Saint-Domingue, August 1791: The Uprising Begins

@amina-brooks

Updated 10/7/2026

• The French Revolution

Focus on the opening uprising in northern Saint-Domingue rather than the entire Haitian Revolution. Explore plantation slavery, Boukman, Cécile Fatiman, the memory of Bois Caïman, and the revolutionary arguments over freedom and citizenship; separate later traditions from contemporary evidence.

Yorktown, 1781: Trapping Cornwallis

@amina-brooks

Updated 10/7/2026

• The American Revolution
• The British Empire

Trace the Franco-American campaign that surrounded Cornwallis at Yorktown. Connect French naval power, siege trenches, the attack on the redoubts, and the surrender to explain why this victory became decisive.

The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773

@amina-brooks

Updated 10/7/2026

• The American Revolution
• The British Empire

Follow the meetings, deadlines, and destruction of tea in Boston Harbor on 16 December 1773. Investigate the East India Company, parliamentary taxation, colonial resistance, and the punitive response that followed.