User:CharlesHST/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Insurrection of 12 Germinal, Year III
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article touches upon all the major points of the particular event, however, it is not written well. There are grammatical errors and the information it provides is not concise. This article is written as though it were a conversation, not an entry on an encyclopedia. The article also seems to be quite brief, however, this could be due to the event not having much more relevant information than what is currently contained in the article.
 * Sources
 * https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/raualt-unrest-germinal-1795/
 * Sources
 * https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/raualt-unrest-germinal-1795/

Option 2

 * Thermidorian Reaction
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article meets most of the criteria for a credible entry in Wikipedia. It is informative, concise, and has an extensive references section along with further reading on the subject. However, there does seem to be room for improvement as the article is relatively brief considering it covers the socio-political situation of France for a 16 month period.
 * Sources
 * https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/pages-from-mat.pdf
 * Hardman, John. The French Revolution : The Fall of the Ancien Regime to the Thermidorian Reaction, 1785-1795. Documents of Modern History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
 * Stewart, John Hall. A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution. New York: TheMacmillan Company, 1951.
 * Lefebvre, Georges. The Thermidorians &amp;amp; the Directory : Two Phases of the French Revolution. Translated by Robert Baldick. New York: Random House, 1964.
 * Fairfax-Cholmeley, Alex. “Reliving the Terror: Victims and Print Culture during the Thermidorian Reaction in France, 1794-1795.” History 104, no. 362 (2019): 606–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12870.
 * Steinberg R. “Terror on Trial: Accountability, Transitional Justice, and the Affaire Le Bon in Thermidorian France.” French Historical Studies 39, no. 3 (2016): 419–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-3500261.
 * Fairfax-Cholmeley, Alex. “Reliving the Terror: Victims and Print Culture during the Thermidorian Reaction in France, 1794-1795.” History 104, no. 362 (2019): 606–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12870.
 * Steinberg R. “Terror on Trial: Accountability, Transitional Justice, and the Affaire Le Bon in Thermidorian France.” French Historical Studies 39, no. 3 (2016): 419–44. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-3500261.

Option 3

 * Reign of Terror
 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a well written article that meets the criteria to be a credible entry on Wikipedia. The article is informative and concise with a good level of detail for the major events of the Reign of Terror. The article also has extensive reference from a plethora of sources.
 * Sources
 * Robespierre, Maximilien, Elihu Palmer, and H. H Brackenridge. Political Miscellany.: Containing: I. Observations on Our Political and Commercial Connections with France. Ii. Extracts from a Speech, Made by Maximilien Robespierre, in the National Convention, the 10th of May, 1793, on the Abuses of Antient Governments. Iii. Extracts from an Oration, Delivered by Elihu Palmer, the 4th of July, 1793. Iv. Oration on the Anniversary of Independence, by Citizen Brackenridge, Author of Modern Chivalry. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. New-York: --Printed by G. Forman, no. 36, Maiden-Lane, 1793.
 * Cameron, Rondo E. “Book Review: Price Control and the Reign of Terror: France, 1793-1795.” Southern Economic Journal 20, no. 3 (1954): 289–90.
 * Robespierre, Maximilien, Elihu Palmer, and H. H Brackenridge. Political Miscellany.: Containing: I. Observations on Our Political and Commercial Connections with France. Ii. Extracts from a Speech, Made by Maximilien Robespierre, in the National Convention, the 10th of May, 1793, on the Abuses of Antient Governments. Iii. Extracts from an Oration, Delivered by Elihu Palmer, the 4th of July, 1793. Iv. Oration on the Anniversary of Independence, by Citizen Brackenridge, Author of Modern Chivalry. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. New-York: --Printed by G. Forman, no. 36, Maiden-Lane, 1793.
 * Cameron, Rondo E. “Book Review: Price Control and the Reign of Terror: France, 1793-1795.” Southern Economic Journal 20, no. 3 (1954): 289–90.

Option 4

 * Committee of Public Safety
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is well written and meets the criteria to be considered credible, however, the article is quite brief. There is room for improvement on this article by way of adding additional information regarding such a historic political entity and its historical memory. The references are also somewhat thin.
 * Sources
 * France. Convention nationale. Comité de salut public, and Maximilien Robespierre. Report Upon the Principles of Political Morality: Which Are to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Interior Concerns of the Republic. Made in the Name of the Committee of Public  Safety, the 18th Pluviose, Second Year of the Republic, (February 6th, 1794,) by Maximilien Robespierre. (Translated from a Copy Printed by Order of the Convention). Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin Bache at no. 112, Market-Street, Philadelphia, 1794. Johnson, Douglas. French Society and the Revolution. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
 * Sources
 * France. Convention nationale. Comité de salut public, and Maximilien Robespierre. Report Upon the Principles of Political Morality: Which Are to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Interior Concerns of the Republic. Made in the Name of the Committee of Public  Safety, the 18th Pluviose, Second Year of the Republic, (February 6th, 1794,) by Maximilien Robespierre. (Translated from a Copy Printed by Order of the Convention). Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin Bache at no. 112, Market-Street, Philadelphia, 1794. Johnson, Douglas. French Society and the Revolution. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press, 1976.