Crispus Attucks: American Revolutionary Hero?
This post is a part of the “Race and Revolution” Series. By Mitch Kachun Crispus Attucks is a name that twenty-first century American schoolchildren usually learn in their introduction to the American...
View ArticleConvulsions Within: When Printing the Declaration of Independence Turns Partisan
By Emily Sneff The New York Times first devoted an entire page to the Declaration of Independence exactly 100 years ago, on July 4, 1918. Thirty years ago, NPR’s Morning Edition began a tradition of...
View Article#WomenAlsoKnowDemocracy: Women, Print Culture, and Transatlantic Revolution...
This post is a part of our “Challenging Democratic Revolutions” series, which explores the ways in which democratic ideologies challenged Old Regimes and how revolutionaries challenged notions of...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Writing a History of Nostalgia Set in the Age of Democratic...
This post is a part of our “Challenging Democratic Revolutions” series, which explores the ways in which democratic ideologies challenged Old Regimes and how revolutionaries challenged notions of...
View ArticleExporting the Revolution: American Revolutionaries in the Indies Trade
By Dane A. Morrison In April of 1791, as Capt. Joseph Ingraham of Boston navigated the brigantine Hope through the central Pacific, he encountered a set of islands unmarked on any of the nautical maps...
View ArticleTexas and the Great White-Washing of the American Revolution
By Michael Leroy Oberg One of my favorite undergraduate professors, John Walzer, taught the course I took on the American Revolution a long time ago at Cal State Long Beach. One of his students once...
View ArticleA Third Revolution Around the Sun
By Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus We started this website three years ago with the goal of exploring the Age of Revolutions in all its variations, sharing our colleagues’ latest research, and continuing...
View ArticlePurchasing Patriotism: Politicization of Shoes, 1760s-1770s
“Revolutionary Material Culture Series” This series examines the Age of Revolutions through its material markers, reminding us that materials themselves reflected and shaped political cultures around...
View ArticleTracing the Aftermath of the American Revolution: An Interview on the Patriot...
***** Today, digital humanities projects abound, and offer scholars and students new ways of understanding the past, present, and future. Charles A. Sherrill, the State Librarian and Archivist with the...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleReligious Disestablishment in the Era of the American Revolution
This post is a part of our “Faith in Revolution” series, which explores the ways that religious ideologies and communities shaped the revolutionary era. Check out the entire series. By Jonathan Den...
View ArticleThe Age of Revolutions and the Impeachment of President Trump: A Post-Mortem
By Malick W. Ghachem The impeachment process just concluded in Washington made remarkable use of the eighteenth century as a source of political and legal authority. Progressive law professors...
View ArticleNo Useless Mouth: Periodizing Native Americans’ War for Independence
By Rachel Herrmann When does your American Revolution class begin and where does it end? Relatedly, do you include Native American histories of the conflict in your syllabus? If you don’t teach, but...
View ArticleGive Me Liberty or Give Me COVID-19: A History
By Robin Wright At the Washington state capitol in Olympia, a man wrapped in an American flag jacket held a home-made sign boldly proclaiming, “Give me liberty or give me COVID 19.” He joined thousands...
View ArticleWill the Real George Washington Please Stand Up?
By Andrew R. Detch Misunderstanding the American Revolution, misapplying its lessons, and misappropriating its symbols and figures is an American tradition as old as the nation itself. Jill Lepore...
View ArticleRecreating Revolutionary Cities: An Interview with Serena Zabin
By Molly Nebiolo More and more academics have turned to digital humanities to interrogate early modern history, which has led to an influx of 3D modeling projects of early urban spaces. Serena Zabin’s...
View ArticleHow Not to Read Bernard Bailyn: The Current Conservative Appropriation of a...
By Asheesh Kapur Siddique The passing of intellectual giants inevitably prompts a collective stocktaking of their influence and importance – but such assessments also act as occasions to weaponize them...
View ArticleHamilton and the Bibliographical Revolution in the Classroom
By Caitlin Kelly Over the past few years, I have developed an undergraduate seminar that explores the intersection of art and history in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical. (See...
View ArticlePirates of the American Revolution in the Chesapeake Bay: Joseph Wheland Jr....
By Jamie L. H. Goodall The American Revolution is often viewed through a loyalist vs. rebel/revolutionary lens. On the one hand, there were the proud, patriotic American colonists, and on the other...
View ArticleFriendship and Sociability: A Reexamination of Benjamin Franklin’s Friendship...
This post is a part of the 2020 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 Revolutions. By...
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