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Jim Ambuske
@jimambuske.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.

www.jamespambuske.com
Tomorrow! The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse welcomes Linford D. Fisher of Brown University to discuss "Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas"

Sign up to join the coversation! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Team: Are you or one of your students interested in podcasting the past? Check out this great internship opportunity from my friends at Primary Source Media!
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 20: The Rebellion

With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord.

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October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Registration is now open for the 2025 Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Conference to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on November 12th.

We've a great line up (which will be available shortly).

Best of all, the conference is free! daic.virginia.edu/2025/registr...
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Spent a terrific morning at Pratt Institute: Brooklyn yesterday for the Incite-Columbia U Oral Storytelling Symposium. I gave a talk about the production Worlds Turned Upside Down, and then led a short script development workshop based on Incite's Elder's Project incite.columbia.edu/projects/the...
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hello New York
October 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
In one week, The Rebellion begins.

Check out this preview of Worlds Turned Upside Down: Episode 20: The Rebellion and be sure to catch up on previous episodes before British regulars make their way down the road to Lexington and Concord.
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I'm delighted to be presenting at the Pratt & Columbia/Incite Oral Storytelling Symposium next week on narrative history audio storytelling. If you'll be in Brooklyn, come join us for a fascinating series of talks and workshops!

www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-colu...
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Here's the line up!
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Awfully kind review for Worlds Turned Upside Down
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 19: The Gambit

With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.

#podcast #history
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Terrific "Taking Stock and Setting Agendas" meeting this past weekend @theitps.bsky.social centered on early American studies and digital history. Thanks to @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, @ben-wright.bsky.social, & Mark Boonshoft for the chance to present "Hard of Hearing: Podcasting Early America."
September 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.

Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.

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September 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Still one of the best titles out there:

Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 18: The Resurrection

Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.

www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
August 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Coming Soon: Episode 18: The Resurrection.

Catch up on past episodes here: www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Spotted in the wild @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social!
August 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Team: I’m thrilled to report that Worlds Turned Upside Down has surpassed 100,000 downloads on the strength of 17 episodes. I’ll have a full slate of thanks once I return from the Emerald Isle next week, but for now, thanks for listening!
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 17: The Tyranny

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passes a series of coercive and intolerable acts to punish the tea destroyers and bring order to British America.

Featuring: Benjamin Carp, James Fichter, and Mary Beth Norton.

www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
July 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Episode 17: "The Tyranny" is coming this week. According to the Action Items generated by Otter.ai after running the transcript through, I am to accomplish the following revolutionary tasks. You are all welcome to join me.
July 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thanks for a great #shear2025 Providence!
July 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Hey #SHEAR2025 attendees! Want a Worlds Turned Upside Down or Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant sticker? Stop by our friends @uvapress.bsky.social in the book room to pick one up AND buy a great book by many contributors to both series. @shearites.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NOW PLAYING: Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant

Episode 60: "Those Guardians of Liberty"

Dr. Lauren Duval joins @katyghistory.bsky.social to discuss Elizabeth Drinker's life in British-occupied Philadelphia.

www.r2studios.org/show/your-mo...
July 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A good mail day brings @kawulf.bsky.social’s new book from Oxford University Press.
July 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM