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The Haitian Revolution: Listen to the Voice of Liberty

They all attended a secret Vodou ceremony, conducted during a tropical storm. And when the enslaved people returned home, the rising began. Though free people of color were already pushing for greater rights, the dynamic had just changed—St. Domingue was now witness to the largest slave revolt since Spartacus. The conflict would continue 13 years and become a proxy war for colonial powers—but against all odds, the rebels of Haiti would emerge with their own nation.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen: Rebel on the Run

Gunshots echo through Hong Kong. An assassin flees across the rooftops. Behind him, the mastermind of the Guangzhou uprising lies dead. The murder leaves a 34-year-old doctor named Sun Yat-sen as the most prominent revolutionary in China. For a decade after, Dr. Sun will travel the world writing, speaking, and organizing resistance. He’ll live in hiding and be kidnapped by secret agents. Because Sun is a dangerous man: he’s about to bring 2,000 years of Imperial rule crashing down.

The Mexican Revolution: Land and Liberty!

It has been nearly a century since Mexico threw off the yoke of Spanish colonialism, yet wealthy landowners still rule the country like feudal lords. Its president, Porfirio Díaz, has refused to step down for 35 years. No more. In the south, General Emiliano Zapata leads an army of peasants fighting for land reform. In the north, Francisco “Pancho” Villa makes cavalry raids on counterrevolutionaries. In a decade of chaos, a revolutionary president will die, US troops will intervene, and Mexico will emerge from civil war as a new nation.

The Protestant Reformation: An Uprising of the Spirit

Wycliffe, Hus, Luther, Calvin—firebrands that shaped their time and ours. This series will explore the chaos of the Protestant Reformation through the lens of the ideas that shaped it, showing how questions of the soul set Europe alight and turned brother against brother. But it will also explore women reformers who have only recently captured historians’ attention—from political patrons like Marguerite de Navarre to academic debaters like Argula von Grumbach.