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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 4d

And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 3d

Check out what our awesome blurb writers, Marlene Daut and Robert Darnton, have to say about volume!

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Cindy Ermus @cindyermus.bsky.social · 4d

Here's the TOC! Feb. 2026.

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 4d

And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 14d

My kid has a great opportunity to play in the Marching Band at Dollywood at the end of the year. If you like to support these kinds of things, consider buying some popcorn or something else! poppinpopcornonline.com/store/store....

Please help VERONICA VANVALKENBURGH Raise Funds for HARRIS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND

Our group is having a fundraiser and you can help!

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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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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 22d

Always a joy to work with and edit @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading more about his pedagogical experiments in this next #AHAPerspectives.

Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 22d

Pitched an essay to @lmansley.bsky.social for the @historians.org’s Perspectives magazine, I’m very excited about! What does it involve, you ask? Cannon balls. Cave paintings. And MORE! In a lot of ways, it’s an extension of my essay on unessays. Read that here: www.historians.org/perspectives...

The Unessay – AHA

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 22d

Pitched an essay to @lmansley.bsky.social for the @historians.org’s Perspectives magazine, I’m very excited about! What does it involve, you ask? Cannon balls. Cave paintings. And MORE! In a lot of ways, it’s an extension of my essay on unessays. Read that here: www.historians.org/perspectives...

The Unessay – AHA

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 22d

It really is such an honor to receive such a wonderful and generous review from a scholar I greatly admire.

Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 22d

Great review of @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social's Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment, in the new AHR! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Bryan Banks. Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment

In Write to Return: Huguenot Refugees on the Frontiers of the French Enlightenment, Bryan Banks has written a fascinating and significant study of how Hugu

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

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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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Doric. Ionic. Corinthian. Spreadsheet.

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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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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

McGill-Queen’s University Press

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Aug 26

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, and 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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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jul 25

A podcast where I just talk to well known authors about the projects they started and stopped but still think about.

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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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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jul 18

Got a behind the scenes tour of Carson McCullers’s childhood home yesterday. The house is operated by the university I work at. Such an incredible space with a powerful legacy. www.columbusstate.edu/mccullers-ce...

Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians

The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Carson McCullers; nurturing writers and musicians, educating young people; and fostering literary, musica...

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · Jul 9

Today in "I ♥️ archivists"

1. East Coast archive sent a bill for 3 out of 4 things they have on Author #5: only $36 & I'll get PDFs by email & save a trip!

2. WCoast archivist at archive I've never been to: "oh! I've always been interested in the wives! Let me see what I have, more later!" 😍

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Jul 8

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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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jun 19

I can’t wait for @cindyermus.bsky.social and my edited collection on the global Age of Revolutions to come out next year, just in time for the anniversary of the American Revolution.

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jun 20

18 chapters AND an epilogue by Lynn Hunt!

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jun 20

Pssst… It’s blurbed by Marlene Daut AND Robert Darnton too!

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jun 19

I can’t wait for @cindyermus.bsky.social and my edited collection on the global Age of Revolutions to come out next year, just in time for the anniversary of the American Revolution.

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · Jun 16

A good visualization to challenge your terracentricism CC: @marcusrediker.bsky.social

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