“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...

ICYMI: Be on the lookout for the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book with @uvapress.bsky.social, coming out in February 2026!

Don Hickey shares an all important reappraisal of the Jay Treaty from 1794. The publication is a part of the 2025 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 Selected Papers! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/23/t...

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/

@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...

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...

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Dr. Jeff Ostler examines "an Indigenous consciousness of genocide” in this 2019 piece, "The Great Fear of 1776." ageofrevolutions.com/2019/09/23/t...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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!)

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman's "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...

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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...

Francesco Giosuè explores the complex legacy of Jean-Joseph Mounier, a pivotal yet often overlooked figure of the French Revolution. Read more here!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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)

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.

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...

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...

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

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." ageofrevolutions.com/2023/02/20/n...

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...

Make sure to pickup our exec editor’s book!

We’re excited to announce that @drericajohnson.bsky.social will be our new Managing Editor! S/O to Dr. Johnson!!!!

James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...

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Fascinating (& very generous!) work here by Alec Dun, looking at the early history of interaction between Haiti and the US. #HaitianSky 🗃️

Fantastic resource! Alec's book, which was based on some of this research, is also worth your time and attention! James Alexander Dun, Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (UPenn Press, 2016)

Incredible resource for scholars!!

This is an amazing essay, dataset, maps, analysis about commerce between Philadelphia and Haiti across the revolutionary period. A model for other studies. Highly recommend!

James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...

@drericajohnson.bsky.social explores sociologist Nathan Hare revolutionary roots in Oklahoma and his role in the rise of Black Studies in her essay “From Oklahoma to San Francisco: Nathan Hare and the Unexpected Origins of Black Studies in the United States.” ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/21/f...

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Andrew Wehrman on smallpox and inoculation: "Inoculate Before It Is Too Late." ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/15/i...

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Ernesto Bassi and Javier Puente's "A Revolution in Knowledge: The Intellectual Legacy of Visa Holders in the United States. A Permanent Work in Progress. ageofrevolutions.com/2020/07/10/a...

Discover how early 19th-century Californian courts contested indigenous identities in "Indigeneity on Trial by a Californio Jury, 1805-1806" by James Bland. 🌍✨ ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/07/i...

From the @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social archive, Nigel Ritchie's "Radical Translation as Direct Action." ageofrevolutions.com/2022/06/13/r...

Discover the roots of Prussian reformist sentiment before 1806 and how it shaped modern Europe. A fascinating read on early revolutionary ideas! 📜 #History #Prussia #Reform #AgeOfRevolutions ageofrevolutions.com/2025/03/17/p...

I missed this one by @tlecaque.bsky.social! Great discussion here on the erasing of Native Americans from the history of colonial Massachusetts in #Fallout4. 🗃️ #gtp Love to see more & more great scholarship by historians analyzing video games!

18th-century, Enlightenment philosophers and bureaucrats increasingly argued that promotion and placement within the Old Regime's state apparatus should be based on merit and not on class-based hereditary lineage. Claudio Man explores this subject. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/03/03/o...

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars forced military strategists to reconsider all aspects of war. Michael Rastaszański explores how William Duane imagined the future of war in our next selected paper from the 2024 CRE. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/02/24/p...

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars forced military strategists to reconsider all aspects of war. Michael Rastaszański explores how William Duane imagined the future of war in our next selected paper from the 2024 CRE. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/02/24/p...