One thing I miss about graduate school is theory. Being introduced to big ideas. Being encouraged to reframe the world. That’s the challenge that pushed me through graduate school. I need to recapture that. Any good theory readings to come out in the last decade I may have missed?

It’s part of our mantra! Nurture. Don’t suffocate an author’s voice. #reviewer2

One thing I miss about graduate school is theory. Being introduced to big ideas. Being encouraged to reframe the world. That’s the challenge that pushed me through graduate school. I need to recapture that. Any good theory readings to come out in the last decade I may have missed?

Working on a section of my book, entitled The Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789, that thinks about the spatial production of food on 18th-century French farms. I’m calling it “Eco-Feudal Farm to Table.”

Age of Revolutions sits down with historian Miranda Spieler to explore the hidden lives of enslaved people in Paris and the fugitive histories that challenge our understanding of freedom and empire. 👉 Read the full interview: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01/12/i...

Giving a TedX talk on Thursday to over 300 people in person, which will later go live on their Youtube channel, which has 27 million + subscribers. I may be a little nervous. Wish me luck.

Great to see @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social's Write to Return (2025) on display at the @historians.org book exhibit in Chicago! Please make sure your library has it!

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...

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 👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/29/j...

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?”

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.

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

AoR is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some special news/updates! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/01/a...

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...

Happy birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social, and congrats to @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social on this achievement.

Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.

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...

Still so very proud of my students who put together this podcast last year! csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...

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...

Listen to an interview I did on my book, Write to Return, with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! newbooksnetwork.com/write-to-ret...

“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...

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…

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

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 🗃️

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/

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...

@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...

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

Here's the TOC! Feb. 2026.

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

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Doric. Ionic. Corinthian. Spreadsheet.

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...

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...

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 🗃️

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

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...

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...

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!" 😍