Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @BryanBanksPhD & @CindyErmus
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📣 2027 Rachel Hines Prize 📣 Call for manuscript submissions from the Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic Worlds (CLAW) Program! Submit manuscripts to CLAW Director Sandra Slater ([email protected]) before May 15, 2027. Learn more at uscpress.com/CLAW for more information.
ICYMI: Dr. Rob Taber (@robtaber@) on the politics of clothing and locating connections among women of color in "What's in a Headwrap?: Using Mouchoirs to Illuminate Connections Between Women of Color in Colonial Haiti." ageofrevolutions.com/2026/09…
Is your summer reading list compiled yet? Check out Dr. Miranda Spieler's book, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. For a sneak preview, take a look at this Jan. 2026 interview with the author! ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01…
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The first two articles in the "Venezuelan Revolutions" series for @AgeofRevs are now posted. Both examine the circulation of political imagery from very different perspectives.
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Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @AgeofRevs book, coming with @uvapress in February 2026! upress.virginia.edu/title/10…
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@AgeofRevs archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776." ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09…...
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). yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780…...
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. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09…
From the @AgeofRevs archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11…
What happens when justice becomes performance? Dive into the British Army’s use of show trials and the legal theater behind military discipline. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09…
Check out our review of Mother Country Radicals, a podcast about the Weather Underground Organization, who declared war on the United States government. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/07…
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. ageofrevolutions.com/2022/03…
From the @AgeofRevs archive, Christine Adams offers up "4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution for Today." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/01…
Mikkel Flohr explores how "crisis" functions in political discourse and often times becomes instrumentalized for personal agendas. Read more! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/06…
From the @AgeofRevs archive, Emily Yankowitz's "'Negative Patriots": How Former Loyalists' Movement Between States Shaped the Development of American Citizenship, 1781-1790."
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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!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04…
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!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04…
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.” ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04…
From the @AgeofRevs archive, Andrew Wehrman on smallpox and inoculation: "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late."
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