Age of Revolutions
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Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @BryanBanksPhD & @CindyErmus
Joined November 2015
👀Book Raffle Alert! Enter by November 28, 2025 to win a copy of Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances!
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Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Corne…
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Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @AgeofRevs book, coming with @uvapress in February 2026!
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Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched Age of Revolutions,
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See also Dr. Ostler's book on the subject, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019). https://t.co/r8wmW6HAl2...
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776." https://t.co/IyK8Wk9FAU...
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By Jeffrey Ostler Sometime in mid-1776, just as colonists were declaring their independence from Great Britain, an unnamed Shawnee addressed an assembly of representatives from multiple Indigenous …
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Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s piece, “Sex Under the Guillotine”, dives into the intimate lives of women imprisoned during the French Revolution. Through powerful archival insights, she reveals how sexuality, punishment, and power collided behind prison walls.
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By Oriane Guiziou-Lamour For the last few years, France has seen a growing interest in rediscovering women authors from the modern period, whose works were either lost or purposefully erased from l…
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late."
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Age of Revolutions is happy to present its “Art of Revolution” series. You can read through the entire series here as they become available. By Andrew Wehrman For portrait painters like…
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What happens when justice becomes performance? Dive into the British Army’s use of show trials and the legal theater behind military discipline.
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By Zack White In a well-received analysis of the British Army in the West Indies, Roger Norman Buckley described that the force’s military justice system as “capricious and arbitrary.”[1] Buckley’s…
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Check out our review of Mother Country Radicals, a podcast about the Weather Underground Organization, who declared war on the United States government.
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By Evan Atchison (Writing Resistance podcast), Sydney Hugdahl (Under the Mushroom Cloud podcast), and Averill Earls (Dig: A History Podcast) Mother Country Radicals. Crooked Media. Podcast audio. 2…
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Working on fall syllabi? Consider incorporating @AgeofRevs articles in your courses! Check out Erika Vause's "Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions" here.
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By Erika Vause In his seminal 1961 essay “The Historian and His Facts,” E.H. Carr compared writing history to preparing fish. Carr argued against seeing history as a “corpus of ascertained facts” l…
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Christine Adams offers up "4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution for Today."
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This paper is an outgrowth of a talk given at the Newberry library on January 15, 2021. By Christine Adams Many Americans may be tempted to interpret Biden’s inauguration as the opening of a new ch…
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Mikkel Flohr explores how "crisis" functions in political discourse and often times becomes instrumentalized for personal agendas. Read more!
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By Mikkel Flohr Crisis is a central concept in contemporary political discourse; we are constantly told that we are in crisis – often several crises at once. We have endured several financial and g…
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Emily Yankowitz's "'Negative Patriots": How Former Loyalists' Movement Between States Shaped the Development of American Citizenship, 1781-1790." https://t.co/VWGqkwq5OK
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This post is a part of the 2021-2 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of…
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James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!)
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By James Alexander Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians h…
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James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!)
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By James Alexander Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians h…
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Erica Johnson explores sociologist Nathan Hare revolutionary roots in Oklahoma and his role in the rise of Black Studies in her essay “From Oklahoma to San Francisco: Nathan Hare and the Unexpected Origins of Black Studies in the United States.”
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By Erica Johnson Sociologist Nathaniel (Nathan) Hare earned two graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and assumed assistant professorships at Virginia State College and Howard University …
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Andrew Wehrman on smallpox and inoculation: "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." https://t.co/rdHztRPmXN
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Age of Revolutions is happy to present its “Art of Revolution” series. You can read through the entire series here as they become available. By Andrew Wehrman For portrait painters like…
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Ernesto Bassi and Javier Puente's "A Revolution in Knowledge: The Intellectual Legacy of Visa Holders in the United States. A Permanent Work in Progress.
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By Ernesto Bassi (Cornell University) and Javier Puente (Smith College)* The Motivation On July 7, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new rule prohibiting international students…
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Discover how early 19th-century Californian courts contested indigenous identities in "Indigeneity on Trial by a Californio Jury, 1805-1806" by James Bland. 🌍✨ https://t.co/CF5vl2hRQY
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This post is a part of the 2024 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions. By …
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From the @AgeofRevs archive, Nigel Ritchie's "Radical Translation as Direct Action."
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By Nigel Ritchie The transnational circulation of radical ideas of liberty, equality, and rights has deeply shaped European societies since the revolutionary period. But how did revolutionaries tra…
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Discover the roots of Prussian reformist sentiment before 1806 and how it shaped modern Europe. A fascinating read on early revolutionary ideas! 📜 #History #Prussia #Reform #AgeOfRevolutions
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This post is a part of the 2024 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions By E…
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