Age of Revolutions: History Videos

This series covers a time when ordinary people began demanding the right to govern themselves. You will start with the founding of the United States, including where the ideas in the Declaration of Independence came from and how the Constitution was built. From there, you will follow the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, where enslaved people fought for and won their freedom. You will then trace Napoleon's rise to power, his wars across Europe, and his final defeat at Waterloo. The series ends by following the United States through the end of the Civil War and into Reconstruction. Many of the ideas fought over in this era, like equal rights and limits on government power, still shape laws today.