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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 8d

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).
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Surviving Genocide

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion “An elegant, organized narrative o...

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 8d

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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Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social · 14d

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 19d

Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 15d

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 29d

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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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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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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Cindy Ermus @cindyermus.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!)

Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jul 16

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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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · Jun 14

Larry Peskin: we see an interesting juxtaposition here about scholar-facing work and public-facing work. How can cutting edge scholarship inform public commemoration and vice-versa? (I've got to shout out this great Erin Zavitz @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social essay here.) #OI2025

The 2015-16 Haitian Elections: Politicizing Dessalines and the Memory of the Haitian Revolution

By Erin Zavitz On 25 October 2015, Haitians went to the ballot box for the first round of presidential elections. None of the fifty-four candidates on the ballot received a majority. In Haiti, a ru…

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · Jun 10

We are seemingly always in crisis. I wrote a brief article on the conceptual history and contemporary politics of "crisis" for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. I argue that designating a situation as a crisis is not just a neutral description – it is also a powerful discursive device... (1/3)

The Politics of Crisis in Historical Perspective

By Mikkel Flohr Crisis is a central concept in contemporary political discourse; we are constantly told that we are in crisis – often several crises at once. We have endured several financial and g…

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · Jun 10

I wrote a short article on the political history of “crisis” for Age of Revolutions. The article traces the concept from its ancient Greek origins to the present – showing how crises are constructed and mobilized to expand power but may also be turned against it.

Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jun 9

Mikkel Flohr explores how "crisis" functions in political discourse and often times becomes instrumentalized for personal agendas. Read more! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/06/09/t...

The Politics of Crisis in Historical Perspective

By Mikkel Flohr Crisis is a central concept in contemporary political discourse; we are constantly told that we are in crisis – often several crises at once. We have endured several financial and g…

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jun 9

Mikkel Flohr explores how "crisis" functions in political discourse and often times becomes instrumentalized for personal agendas. Read more! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/06/09/t...

The Politics of Crisis in Historical Perspective

By Mikkel Flohr Crisis is a central concept in contemporary political discourse; we are constantly told that we are in crisis – often several crises at once. We have endured several financial and g…

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · Jun 9

Mikkel Flohr explores how "crisis" functions in political discourse and often times becomes instrumentalized for personal agendas. Read more! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/06/09/t...

The Politics of Crisis in Historical Perspective

By Mikkel Flohr Crisis is a central concept in contemporary political discourse; we are constantly told that we are in crisis – often several crises at once. We have endured several financial and g…

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · Jun 3

Just got the first round of proofs I'm expecting this summer! My contribution to @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social & @cindyermus.bsky.social upcoming edited volume on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social

The Bastille and the Roundabout
Popular Protest and the Revolutionary Past of the Gilets Jaunes
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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · May 19

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Emily Yankowitz's "'Negative Patriots": How Former Loyalists' Movement Between States Shaped the Development of American Citizenship, 1781-1790."
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“Negative Patriots”: How Former Loyalists’ Movement Between States Shaped the Development of American Citizenship, 1781-1790*

This post is a part of the 2021-2 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…

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J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social · May 9

On the anniversary of the appearance of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” snake, a link to my @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social article about its roots in 18th-century botanical understandings: ageofrevolutions.com/2021/07/05/j...

Join, or Die: Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?

This article is a part of our “Revolutionary Animals” series, which examines the roles of animals in revolution, representations of revolutionary animals, and the intersections between …

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · May 6

Make sure to pickup our exec editor’s book!

Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · May 6

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...

Write to Return | McGill-Queen’s University Press

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