Bryan Banks
@bryanbanksphd.bsky.social
Historian of France/Atlantic World, Assoc. Prof, Book on Huguenot refugees. Working on a book about the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. Co-founder www.AgeofRevolutions.com
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Where did modern definitions of refugees come from? Here’s my attempt to answer the question: Write to Return: Huguebot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/write-to-ret...
The Discovery Channel show Moonshiners: True Crime and Shine episode on the Phenix City mob airs tonight at 9 pm eastern. Check it out! #aha2026 m.imdb.com/news/ni65646...
Moonshiners “True Crime & Shine: Sin City, Alabama” January 6 2026 on Discovery - IMDb
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January 7, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The Discovery Channel show Moonshiners: True Crime and Shine episode on the Phenix City mob airs tonight at 9 pm eastern. Check it out! #aha2026 m.imdb.com/news/ni65646...
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A sharp new look at Jeannot Bullet and the early Haitian Revolution—far more complex than the usual “villain” narrative. A fascinating rethink of power, violence, and revolutionary vision in 1791. @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social
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Jeannot and the Haitian Revolution
By Nicolai von Eggers The Haitian Revolution, which began when a revolt broke out 1791 on the Northern Plain in the French the colony of Saint-Domingue, ultimately led to the abolition of slavery a…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A sharp new look at Jeannot Bullet and the early Haitian Revolution—far more complex than the usual “villain” narrative. A fascinating rethink of power, violence, and revolutionary vision in 1791. @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social
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Been getting into NBA basketball more lately. Yes, players today have some crazy longevity and skills, but the stats commentators keep bragging about are just silly. “How does it feel to be the all-time leader in rebounds, assists, 2nd quarter bathrooms breaks, and most colorful shoes?”
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Been getting into NBA basketball more lately. Yes, players today have some crazy longevity and skills, but the stats commentators keep bragging about are just silly. “How does it feel to be the all-time leader in rebounds, assists, 2nd quarter bathrooms breaks, and most colorful shoes?”
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In need of some Christmas cheer??? ageofrevolutions.com/2021/12/20/1...
12 Days of Thermidor: A Christmas Parody
Lyrics by Adam Roberts Rendition of “12 Days of Thermidor” by Dr. Rachel Rachel Gillett Lyrics: On the first day of Thermidor my true love sent to me A cap in a Liberty Tree. On t…
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December 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In need of some Christmas cheer??? ageofrevolutions.com/2021/12/20/1...
Updating one’s CV is both exhausting and rewarding. You do more than you realize. Celebrate that.
December 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Updating one’s CV is both exhausting and rewarding. You do more than you realize. Celebrate that.
Would love someone to write a review of the series for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social!!! Any takers?
A great review of Ken Burns' the American Revolution by Susan Brynne Long
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Ken Burns’s Wake-Up Call – Susan Brynne Long
Ken Burns’s newest docuseries may have its shortcomings, but others looking to tell the story of the Founding could learn from his attention to detail.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Would love someone to write a review of the series for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social!!! Any takers?
Something tells me this was Prince’s bidet. #rasberrybidet #rasberryberet
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Something tells me this was Prince’s bidet. #rasberrybidet #rasberryberet
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AoR is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some special news/updates! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/01/a...
A Tenth Revolution Around the Sun
By Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus Ten years ago, we published our first essays on Age of Revolutions (AoR). Not yet knowing how the site would evolve, …
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December 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
AoR is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some special news/updates! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/01/a...
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
BOOK RAFFLE: ENTANGLED ALLIANCES
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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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Happy birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social, and congrats to @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social on this achievement.
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
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November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Happy birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social, and congrats to @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social on this achievement.
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Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
ageofrevolutions.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.
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Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
ageofrevolutions.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
ageofrevolutions.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
Still so very proud of my students who put together this podcast last year! csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...
Who Cares about The Marquis de Lafayette? | Podcasts | Columbus State University
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November 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Still so very proud of my students who put together this podcast last year! csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...
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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...
Listen to an interview I did on my book, Write to Return, with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! newbooksnetwork.com/write-to-ret...
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Listen to an interview I did on my book, Write to Return, with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! newbooksnetwork.com/write-to-ret...
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“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!
ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/10/t...
Read part I now!
ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/10/t...
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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...
Returning to the Great Pigeon Massacre book means rereading everything I’ve written and planning forward. #amreading #amwriting copiously in the margins…
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Returning to the Great Pigeon Massacre book means rereading everything I’ve written and planning forward. #amreading #amwriting copiously in the margins…
With one major project completely off my desk, it is time to turn back to the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. I miss Twitter sometimes for how I used it to keep myself accountable. I'm going to try and use bsky in the same way. Are there hashtags for this? #Team500? CC: @drsepinwall.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
With one major project completely off my desk, it is time to turn back to the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. I miss Twitter sometimes for how I used it to keep myself accountable. I'm going to try and use bsky in the same way. Are there hashtags for this? #Team500? CC: @drsepinwall.bsky.social
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Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed? Watch “Op-Ed Writing for Historians" with @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @jelaniya.bsky.social, @mauracunningham.bsky.social, @franhirsch.bsky.social, @brianros1.bsky.social, & moderator @lmansley.bsky.social. #AHAOnline 🗃️
Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public
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October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed? Watch “Op-Ed Writing for Historians" with @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @jelaniya.bsky.social, @mauracunningham.bsky.social, @franhirsch.bsky.social, @brianros1.bsky.social, & moderator @lmansley.bsky.social. #AHAOnline 🗃️
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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
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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!
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/
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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.
ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...
ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...
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@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...
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…
ageofrevolutions.com
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...