Stuff You Missed is an easy way to augment your reading and class discussions. The following are relevant to the era of he Revolution:

• #18 Madame de Pompadour
• #66 Catherine the Great in Poland
• #244 How the French Revolution Worked
• #60 Napoleon in Egypt
• #122 Toussaint l’Ouverture and Haiti

Or listen to this discussion about the nature of revolutions in the light of current events in North Africa.

Or another good opinion piece from the NYT on watching revolution in the Arab world