Established in 1970 to foster the study of Europe during the Revolutionary Period (1750–1850), the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe has grown into one of the major academic conferences in the United States. The Thirtieth Annual Meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, was held from March 2–5, 2000. It sponsored twenty-seven sessions and hosted over 123 historians who attended to hear papers ranging in topic from the problems of command in the Napoleonic Wars to the changing perception of art in eighteenth-century France. Members of the Consortium are actively seeking participants to present papers on topics related to social history. The best presentations from each conference are published in the Selected Papers.