Age of Revolutions
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Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social & @cindyermus.bsky.social.
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Our Executive Editor had his students put this podcast together over the course of ... well... his course. Give it a spin.
Still so very proud of my students who put together this podcast last year! csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...
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Our Executive Editor had his students put this podcast together over the course of ... well... his course. Give it a spin.
Edmund Burke’s reflections on the French Revolution remain as biting as ever—tragic, comic, and deeply unsettling. This new piece explores how Burke wrestled with the collapse of kingship and the rise of revolutionary chaos.
👉 Read Part II here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/17/t...
👉 Read Part II here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/17/t...
“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy”: Burke’s Tragicomic Reflections on the French Revolution, Part 2″
By Jack Zapotochny Click here to read part 1. Part 2: The Reflections and Restoration Tragedy Edmund Burke represented the French Revolution as an affront to tradition and historical progress, pers…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Edmund Burke’s reflections on the French Revolution remain as biting as ever—tragic, comic, and deeply unsettling. This new piece explores how Burke wrestled with the collapse of kingship and the rise of revolutionary chaos.
👉 Read Part II here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/17/t...
👉 Read Part II here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/17/t...
“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy” explores Edmund Burke’s tragicomic reflections on the French Revolution. A compelling look at how satire, sorrow, and political philosophy intertwine in the wake of royal collapse.
Read part I now!
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Read part I now!
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“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy”: Burke’s Tragicomic Reflections on the French Revolution
By Jack Zapotochny Part 1: Burke and Scriblerian Satire In the late eighteenth century, ideologues sought to shape public opinion with short polemical pamphlets. Perhaps more than any other work in…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy” explores Edmund Burke’s tragicomic reflections on the French Revolution. A compelling look at how satire, sorrow, and political philosophy intertwine in the wake of royal collapse.
Read part I now!
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Read part I now!
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Kevin Murphy explores how loyalty oaths fractured communities and reshaped political belonging during the American Revolution. A timely reflection on allegiance, dissent, and the costs of revolution. Read now 👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/03/l...
Loyalty Oaths and the Crisis of the American Revolution
This post is a part of the 2025 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 R…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Kevin Murphy explores how loyalty oaths fractured communities and reshaped political belonging during the American Revolution. A timely reflection on allegiance, dissent, and the costs of revolution. Read now 👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/03/l...
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Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
The Global Age of Revolutions
<p><b>Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions</b></p><p>In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com
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October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Don Hickey shares an all important reappraisal of the Jay Treaty from 1794. The publication is a part of the 2025 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 Selected Papers! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/23/t...
The Jay Treaty of 1794: A Reappraisal
This post is a part of the 2025 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 D…
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October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don Hickey shares an all important reappraisal of the Jay Treaty from 1794. The publication is a part of the 2025 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 Selected Papers! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/23/t...
ICYMI: Be on the lookout for the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book with @uvapress.bsky.social, coming out in February 2026!
Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
The Global Age of Revolutions
<p><b>Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions</b></p><p>In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com
www.upress.virginia.edu
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ICYMI: Be on the lookout for the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book with @uvapress.bsky.social, coming out in February 2026!
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Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
The Global Age of Revolutions
<p><b>Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions</b></p><p>In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com
www.upress.virginia.edu
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
@katytelling.bsky.social explores how race and masculinity were contested and constructed in the early American republic. What did it mean to have “a great reputation among men”? Dive into the complexities of honor, identity, and power.
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A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic
By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…
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October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@katytelling.bsky.social explores how race and masculinity were contested and constructed in the early American republic. What did it mean to have “a great reputation among men”? Dive into the complexities of honor, identity, and power.
📖 Read here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...
📖 Read here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...
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So grateful to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for their time and care and for giving me space to have a verrrrrrry "thinking out loud" piece.
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A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic
By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…
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October 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So grateful to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for their time and care and for giving me space to have a verrrrrrry "thinking out loud" piece.
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From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776."
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The Great Fear of 1776
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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September 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776."
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@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.
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Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
Explore the overlooked Acadian crisis in France during the Seven Years’ War and rethink the narrative of exile, diplomacy, and imperial ambition with Irene Kim's article!
📖 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/23/i...
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September 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Explore the overlooked Acadian crisis in France during the Seven Years’ War and rethink the narrative of exile, diplomacy, and imperial ambition with Irene Kim's article!
📖 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/23/i...
📖 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/23/i...
Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s latest 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/2025/09/08/s...
Sex under the Guillotine: Women, Prison, and the French Revolution
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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September 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s latest 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/2025/09/08/s...
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In the summer of 1776, famed portraitist Charles Willson Peale created his most political painting imploring the American public and members of Congress to “Inoculate Before It Is Too Late.” Soon Washington changed his mind and ordered the inoculation of the army. We need that public effort again.
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...
Inoculate Before It Is Too Late: Lessons Drawn from Charles Willson Peale’s Rachel Weeping
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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September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In the summer of 1776, famed portraitist Charles Willson Peale created his most political painting imploring the American public and members of Congress to “Inoculate Before It Is Too Late.” Soon Washington changed his mind and ordered the inoculation of the army. We need that public effort again.
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A wonderful AoR piece by @profwehrman.bsky.social, author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution (a must-read!)
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...
Inoculate Before It Is Too Late: Lessons Drawn from Charles Willson Peale’s Rachel Weeping
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…
ageofrevolutions.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A wonderful AoR piece by @profwehrman.bsky.social, author of The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution (a must-read!)
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...
Inoculate Before It Is Too Late: Lessons Drawn from Charles Willson Peale’s Rachel Weeping
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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September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...
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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. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/02/s...
Show Trials? Legal Process in the British Army’s Justice System
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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September 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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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. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/02/s...
Show Trials? Legal Process in the British Army’s Justice System
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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September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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/2025/09/02/s...
Francesco Giosuè explores the complex legacy of Jean-Joseph Mounier, a pivotal yet often overlooked figure of the French Revolution. Read more here!
The Historiographical and Political Reception of the Revolutionary Jean-Joseph Mounier
By Francesco Giosuè From the tennis court to the great constitutional debate, the Moderates, who may be called the Liberals, were predominant and Mounier was their tactician. […] With some of his f…
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August 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Francesco Giosuè explores the complex legacy of Jean-Joseph Mounier, a pivotal yet often overlooked figure of the French Revolution. Read more here!
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, check out @drsepinwall.bsky.social 's "Thoroughly Modern Maxie: Robespierre's Relevance for Democracy Today." ageofrevolutions.com/2022/08/08/t...
Thoroughly Modern Maxie: Robespierre’s Relevance for Democracy Today
By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Maximilien Robespierre has gotten a bad rap in the last 228 years. In popular culture, he has become synonymous with the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror,” a blood…
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July 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, check out @drsepinwall.bsky.social 's "Thoroughly Modern Maxie: Robespierre's Relevance for Democracy Today." ageofrevolutions.com/2022/08/08/t...
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/2025/07/21/p...
Podcast Review: Mother Country Radicals
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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July 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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/2025/07/21/p...
Working on fall syllabi? Consider incorporating @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social articles in your courses! Check out Erika Vause's "Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions" here. ageofrevolutions.com/2022/03/14/t...
Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions
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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July 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Working on fall syllabi? Consider incorporating @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social articles in your courses! Check out Erika Vause's "Teaching Students to Read Secondary Sources with Age of Revolutions" here. ageofrevolutions.com/2022/03/14/t...
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Christine Adams offers up "4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution for Today." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/01/22/4...
4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution for Today
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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July 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Christine Adams offers up "4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution for Today." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/01/22/4...