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
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Heading home for Thanksgiving to fight with your uncle about what the founders wanted?
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
The Founders Didn’t Want A Gerontocracy with Rebecca Brannon I Revolutions in Retrospect
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Heading home for Thanksgiving to fight with your uncle about what the founders wanted?
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
Check out "The Founders Didn't Want A Gerontocracy," the latest episode of Revolutions in Retrospect featuring @lynnprobbins.bsky.social's chat with @brannon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uscw...
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Oh very good! It’s up! Some horror just in time for your Thanksgiving drives!
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Oh very good! It’s up! Some horror just in time for your Thanksgiving drives!
Starring @rparkinson.bsky.social and Christopher Pearl.
Voices by @aipsmith.bsky.social, @johntrterry.bsky.social, @annefertig.bsky.social, and Evan McCormick.
Listen now!
Voices by @aipsmith.bsky.social, @johntrterry.bsky.social, @annefertig.bsky.social, and Evan McCormick.
Listen now!
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Starring @rparkinson.bsky.social and Christopher Pearl.
Voices by @aipsmith.bsky.social, @johntrterry.bsky.social, @annefertig.bsky.social, and Evan McCormick.
Listen now!
Voices by @aipsmith.bsky.social, @johntrterry.bsky.social, @annefertig.bsky.social, and Evan McCormick.
Listen now!
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
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Please join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social & @jimambuske.bsky.social live on Dec 2 at 8pmEST as they answer your questions about Ken Burns' latest series. Sign up here for the link to join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/1975144490...
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Please join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social & @jimambuske.bsky.social live on Dec 2 at 8pmEST as they answer your questions about Ken Burns' latest series. Sign up here for the link to join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/1975144490...
Do you have questions you'd like us to tackle? Drop them in the thread below. We'll also take your questions live on air.
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
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We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Do you have questions you'd like us to tackle? Drop them in the thread below. We'll also take your questions live on air.
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
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Time to cut in #Skystorians, we've got an #AMA with Dr. Amanda Madden, author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy! Come ask anything about the history of crime & violence, Renaissance & Early Modern Italy, Digital Humanities, & Ezio Auditore.
Hello! I'm Dr. Amanda Madden, author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025) and an expert on violence in Renaissance and early modern Italy. AMA!
Hello all! I’m Amanda Madden, assistant professor at George Mason University and researcher on violence in Italy, 1450-1700 and author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites of Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025), a study of how vendetta, enmity, and factional politics contributed to modern state formation. I'm also working on several articles on violence including the digital project, Mapping and Modeling Violence in Early Modern Italy which is looking at lots of data on violence and we're hoping to release some of our results next spring.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Time to cut in #Skystorians, we've got an #AMA with Dr. Amanda Madden, author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy! Come ask anything about the history of crime & violence, Renaissance & Early Modern Italy, Digital Humanities, & Ezio Auditore.
Great question! Does anybody know?
Is there a memorial to the animals who served and were lost in war in America? I find the one in London very moving.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Great question! Does anybody know?
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More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
Xavier professor receives $2M for research into Caribbean slavery
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November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...
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Perhaps? 😁 The '4' (counting historiography rather than 'assessing'): original, Civil War/Reconstruction, '60s, and present?
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Perhaps? 😁 The '4' (counting historiography rather than 'assessing'): original, Civil War/Reconstruction, '60s, and present?
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By my reckoning, there have been four 'American Revolutions' or has 'American history' since 1775 just been one long (self-absorbed) phenomenon? 😁
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
By my reckoning, there have been four 'American Revolutions' or has 'American history' since 1775 just been one long (self-absorbed) phenomenon? 😁
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I'm a DoI person but I still think you're absolutely right--the Revolution ends with ratification of the BoR :)
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I'm a DoI person but I still think you're absolutely right--the Revolution ends with ratification of the BoR :)
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Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Thanks to everyone who turned out last night to the Alexandria Historical Society's watch party for the final episode of The American Revolution. Great crowd and questions, moderated by Virginia Public Radio's Michael Pope. Great to have WETA there as well.
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Support the humanities and public media!
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thanks to everyone who turned out last night to the Alexandria Historical Society's watch party for the final episode of The American Revolution. Great crowd and questions, moderated by Virginia Public Radio's Michael Pope. Great to have WETA there as well.
Support the humanities and public media!
Support the humanities and public media!
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Academic friends, please consider submitting a proposal for the Conference on Religions an Freedom c. 1776, held June 4-6 in Providence and jointly organized by @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social and @jcblibrary.bsky.social. Deadline is Dec. 30.
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Conference on Religions and Freedom c. 1776 | John Carter Brown Library
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November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Academic friends, please consider submitting a proposal for the Conference on Religions an Freedom c. 1776, held June 4-6 in Providence and jointly organized by @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social and @jcblibrary.bsky.social. Deadline is Dec. 30.
jcblibrary.org/events/confe...
jcblibrary.org/events/confe...
Stay tuned. Some friends and I will be hosting a live Q and A after Thanksgiving to answer your questions about what you learned or didn’t learn in the series. We will have details out soon. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Stay tuned. Some friends and I will be hosting a live Q and A after Thanksgiving to answer your questions about what you learned or didn’t learn in the series. We will have details out soon. #HATM
Good final episode. Wasn’t sure how they were going to fit all in, but they did. Still, I would’ve liked to have seen the series end with the war itself, and then a gesture towards the future as opposed to going into the constitution. The revolution is fascinating enough in its own right. #hatm
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Good final episode. Wasn’t sure how they were going to fit all in, but they did. Still, I would’ve liked to have seen the series end with the war itself, and then a gesture towards the future as opposed to going into the constitution. The revolution is fascinating enough in its own right. #hatm
Carleton stonewalling George Washington on the return of enslaved people are some of my favorite letters from the end of the war.
Harry Washington evacuates to Nova Scotia then on to Sierra Leon, where he later uses the language of the American Revolution against the British. #HATM
Harry Washington evacuates to Nova Scotia then on to Sierra Leon, where he later uses the language of the American Revolution against the British. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Carleton stonewalling George Washington on the return of enslaved people are some of my favorite letters from the end of the war.
Harry Washington evacuates to Nova Scotia then on to Sierra Leon, where he later uses the language of the American Revolution against the British. #HATM
Harry Washington evacuates to Nova Scotia then on to Sierra Leon, where he later uses the language of the American Revolution against the British. #HATM
Admiral Rodney’s victory in the Caribbean gave George III hope that the war could carry on. Lord Shelburne has the honor of convincing the king that they could accept American independence, but the British could control the states through trade. Which they do to a large degree. #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Admiral Rodney’s victory in the Caribbean gave George III hope that the war could carry on. Lord Shelburne has the honor of convincing the king that they could accept American independence, but the British could control the states through trade. Which they do to a large degree. #HATM
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social and @seangallagher.bsky.social are working on great books that will speak to the calculations Black Americans make in this era and their relationship to the British and American states #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social and @seangallagher.bsky.social are working on great books that will speak to the calculations Black Americans make in this era and their relationship to the British and American states #HATM
Rochambeau is such a seasoned commander and a savvy political general. He puts all the pieces in place whitely that finally convinces Washington to turn south instead of striking New York. Always loved how he presents GW with a map that shows how hitting NY might prove fatal #HATM
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Rochambeau is such a seasoned commander and a savvy political general. He puts all the pieces in place whitely that finally convinces Washington to turn south instead of striking New York. Always loved how he presents GW with a map that shows how hitting NY might prove fatal #HATM