EPSAR : Database

Members of the America2026 consortium are working in partnership with members of the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago to produce a searchable database of European Printed Sources on the American Revolution (EPSAR). Led by Carine Lounissi (Rouen-Normandie), the America2026 EPSAR team of experienced researchers will visit libraries and archival collections across Europe to find and compile the wide range of European texts published between 1763 and 1789, in their original European languages or in translation, in which the reasons, the events and the resolution of the American revolution were extensively discussed. Organized by coinciding linguistic and geographic areas–French, British, Italian, Germanic, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese, Scandinavian, Slavic and Hungarian– EPSAR’s aim is to make these lesser-known sources about the American revolution as a European event available to researchers, who will be able to navigate this corpus via its directory containing data about the origins, publication history and key content of each text.