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One of the key goals of Core 133 is to learn critical thinking skills in a historical context.

This assignment measures your ability to critically evaluate multiple primary sources that are in historical conversation.

For this class "historical conversation" means that we view primary sources from the past as necessarily part of a historical discourse about major historical events.

Ideas, or trends spread out over time and taken up by multiple historical actors. For this assignment, you are asked to answer questions about the documents from the period of the French Revolution. They are:

1. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

2. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

After reading the documents, please answer the questions below. You may use your textbook and my lectures in addition to the sources to support your ideas.

1. Briefly identify the historical context for the documents-the who, what, when, where, and why - that will be helpful in understanding them in historical conversation.

2. Compare the two documents by evaluating the main concerns expressed in them. In other words, how did different people who lived during the revolution in France (and who were chiefly responsible for carrying out) view the aims of the revolution?

3. If the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is an official document (produced and accepted by the revolutionaries) what does the de Gouges document reveal about the French Revolution? What does her document expose about various people's hopes/desires/expectations/concems at this time?

4. How might a person's view of the revolution be shaped by not having the document from de Gouges? In other words, if one only had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, what might one think about this period? How does the de Gouges document complicate things?