Bryan Banks
@BryanBanksPhD
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Dean of Libraries and Graduate Studies, Historian of France/Atlantic World, Prof @CSUHistoryGP, Book on Huguenot refugees out now. Co-founder @AgeofRevs, he/him
Muscogee Lands/Columbus, GA
Joined November 2015
The French killed pigeons and destroyed dovecotes across France in 1789. In 1796, Burke slammed Abbé Sièyes for having "whole nests of pigeon-holes full of constitutions ready made." Gillray later incorporated the slander in this political cartoon. https://t.co/ciSzg34viK
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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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My kid has a great opportunity to play in the Marching Band at Dollywood at the end of the year. If you like to support these kinds of things, consider buying some popcorn or something else!
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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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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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First up from the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era's 2024 Selected Papers is Joanna Gorska's "Identifying the Siberian Indigene: The Intersection of Class and Ethnicity in mid-19th Century Russia"!!!
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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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Peter Hicks (Fondation Napoléon) explores a new angle to Napoleon's clandestine activities while in exile. @ConsortiumRev
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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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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars forced military strategists to reconsider all aspects of war. Michael Rastaszański explores how William Duane imagined the future of war in our next selected paper from the 2024 @ConsortiumRev
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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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It's been a great year in publishing revolutionary content. Want to see what the top articles of 2024 on Age of Revolutions? Click the link!
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*** Each year, we look back at Age of Revolutions stats and identify those pieces that received the most site traffic. Here are the top 10 most viewed pieces published in 2024 (in no part…
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How can Charles Tilly's socio-historical theories help us to understand counter revolution? Jiří Juhász explores Tilly, revolution, and the Arab Spring.
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By Jiří Juhász Revolutions are often framed as grand narratives of progress, where the victors dismantle oppressive regimes and build new social orders. However, these stories frequently overlook a…
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Several new books have come out on the Age of Revolutions. Roberto Breña's review of two books points towards obvious gaps and new directions. Check it out!
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(A Critical Analysis of Two Recent Books in American Historiography)* by Roberto Breña To my dear friend Eric Van Young, for his warmth and his modesty. ABSTRACT: This bibliographic essay criticall…
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With the end of the semester approaching, you may be wondering how to get useful feedback from your students. Here’s how I’ve gone about it. @insidehighered
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The CFP for the upcoming Consoetium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 has an extended deadline for submission of December 1! Send us your proposals!
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In a class yesterday, a student asked if Napoleon was holding a baby deer during the coup of 18 Brumaire or whether this was some kind of symbolism by the artist. Even though I *know* it’s his hat (right?), I now can’t unsee this.
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Congrats to Sara E. Johnson for winning the @AHAhistorians J. Russell Major Prize in French History for Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World! Check out @DrSepinwall 's review of the book here:
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By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Review of: Johnson, Sara E. Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World. Williamsburg, VA/Chapel Hill: Omohundro Instit…
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New global early modern focus for the HLQ - now under the excellent stewardship of Brett Rushforth as editor. A great option to consider when you are pondering your journal submission options:
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The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an...
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Never have I seen Reviewer 2 use the word "brilliant" so much as the project that @CindyErmus and company have cooking!
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