Loyalists and the Birth of Libraries in New England: The Marriage of Martin...
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Land Grants, Religious Exemptions, and Aid on the Ground: The Role of Local...
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The annual Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 will be held virtually from February 18-20 & 26-27 and will be free to all who register. You can register for the conference here. For the...
View ArticleTransnational News and the Irish Free Trade Crisis of 1779
By Joel Herman The gravitational pull of the American Revolution has been given new focus by the transnational turn, as scholars have begun to uncover the influence of the revolution elsewhere in the...
View ArticleConfronting America’s Legacy of Gun Violence and Racism: An Interview with...
*** As yet another bout of shootings have occurred in the United States (in Atlanta, Ga and Boulder, CO), defenders of the Second Amendment are already summoning the Founding Fathers to justify...
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Review of Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary...
Review by Kacy Dowd Tillman Jones, Brad A. Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 324 pp. Resisting Independence by...
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The British Constitution in Crisis: The Gordon Riots and the American Revolution
By Lauren Michalak In the first week of June 1780, London was nearly brought to its knees by a week-long riot. Rioters destroyed all but one prison, attacked the properties and bodies of judges and...
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Red Meat for Empire: New England Cattle, the British Empire, and the...
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 representation...
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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 representation...
View ArticleCato’s Suicide and Civic Martyrdom in Early British and Spanish America
By Francesca Langer The story of Cato’s suicide, as handed down by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch, was a gruesome political parable that captured the revolutionary imaginations of early...
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No Bishops, No Kings: Religious Iconography and Popular Memory of the...
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 J. L. Tomlin Writing to his friend and fellow founder...
View ArticleFighting the American Revolution: An Interview with Woody Holton
***** The scuffle over the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project—which has seen several eminent historians publicly pit themselves against the magazine issue and its editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones, over...
View ArticleThe Children’s Crusade: A Teenage Recollection of the American Revolution
By Tessa de Boer On August 4, 1781, a glittering frigate left the port of the Dutch isle of Texel. Its name was South Carolina, and it was tasked with transporting military supplies to the nascent...
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Radical Translation as Direct Action
By Nigel Ritchie The transnational circulation of radical ideas of liberty, equality, and rights has deeply shaped European societies since the revolutionary period. But how did revolutionaries...
View ArticleMythmaking in Manhattan: Stories of 1776 and Santa Claus
By Benjamin L. Carp Yes, Virginia, the Patriots did burn New York City. On September 21, 1776, a fifth of New York City caught fire, hollowing out Trinity Church and leaving thousands homeless. Six...
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George Washington in Barbados?
By Erica Johnson Edwards Warning: This piece contains an image of torture/controlling devices for enslaved. In November 2022, I accompanied three colleagues on a trip to the University of the West...
View ArticlePlacing Loyalist Political Arguments in the American Revolutionary Tradition:...
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View Article“Those Who Did Not Extend Their Connections Were the Happiest”: Loyalist...
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View Article“Negative Patriots”: How Former Loyalists’ Movement Between States Shaped the...
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View Article“They Hoped That the Time Was Approaching, When the Powers of the State Would...
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