A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...
You can buy our collection now here and read an interview @cindyermus.bsky.social and I did about putting it together. bsky.app/profile/ageo...
Pick up your Age Of Revolutions companion collection! Great essays drawn from essays that first appeared on the site and others unique to the book! upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/
Copy of the book described above
Image of chapter by Smith, title in post above
My copy of the newly published 'The Global Age of Revolutions' arrived in the post yesterday! My chapter is called 'The Bastille and the Roundabout: the revolutionary past of the gilets jaunes'
If you missed it yesterday:
You see, this peaked my interest and then I noticed @tlecaque.bsky.social wrote it.
I know what I am reading over lunch.
I miss my father, but I'm a historian because of him, and we can mourn the present while delving into the grief of the past. I wrote a thing about a document I found @mhs1791.bsky.social and about how much the emotional weight of the journal meant to me--give it a read, if you're interested.
Just a reminder of the deep humanist roots @tlecaque.bsky.social brings to his work. This is a good reminder to not lose sight of lived experience in our historical writing. Bravo Thomas!
Neck deep in the final stretch of my book, distracted by griefs of the world & my own & fears, I sometimes wonder what I’ve done studying a form so very present, bloody with vivid, fraught emotion.
@tlecaque.bsky.social reminds me that for all I joke of the “safely dead” their traces move us still.
A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...
What if the American Revolution was also a supply‑chain crisis? This post rethinks independence through the lens of logistics, scarcity, and survival—using Nova Scotia (1783–1794) as a revealing case study.
👉 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/23/a...
Great short essay. I’ve been working on a transcription project for the Port of Saint John customs house, so seeing many parallels with NS. In 1788, 55 of the 88 non-British ships that sold cargo in SJ were from the US - all carrying foodstuffs.
What if the American Revolution was also a supply‑chain crisis? This post rethinks independence through the lens of logistics, scarcity, and survival—using Nova Scotia (1783–1794) as a revealing case study.
👉 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/23/a...
Read an interview with the editors! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
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🥳 Happy Book Birthday to The Global Age of Revolutions edited collection, from @cindyermus.bsky.social & @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social - the two founders of @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social & two fabulous people and scholars. More info on how they seek to rethink the Age of Revolutions in the post! 🗃️
One of the toughest obstacles to this volume was selecting which pieces from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social to include. There are so many great essays. The volume is meant to be read alongside the website! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...
If you're interested in a little background for The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today, check out this Author's Corner with the editors! @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social
I remember sitting by the banks of the Chatahoochee River, talking with @cindyermus.bsky.social about this volume. We knew we had the themes to publish the volume from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for such a book. As it turned out, it’s better than either of us imagined!
Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!
Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions
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So proud to have written this for @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
ICYMI: Our latest from Dr. Suzanne Levin on the meaning of terror during the French Revolution.
What did “Terror is the order of the day” mean during the French Revolution?
A new AoR piece breaks down the political pressures, popular demands, & revolutionary logic behind this infamous 1793 declaration—and why it mattered far beyond the guillotine.
👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/09/w...
Que veut dire « à l'ordre du jour » dans l'expression « la terreur à l'ordre du jour » ?
What did “Terror is the order of the day” mean during the French Revolution?
A new AoR piece breaks down the political pressures, popular demands, & revolutionary logic behind this infamous 1793 declaration—and why it mattered far beyond the guillotine.
👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/09/w...
This is a fun read. Have to admit I loved the Swamp Fox (but I wasn't allowed to watch much TV except Disney back in the '70s!). (Muppet show + Disney or the Nature of Things was the highlight of my week).
lol I made a last minute choice last Thursday to use the edition of Simms' book because of the image in this thumbnail.
This is a decent piece and, in fact, it identifies a historiographical situation that impacts word choices that I was emailing about *this very morning* glad to have the back up.
We will be awash in sloppy nostalgic representations of the American Revolution this year. That’s why sharp careful analyses of the distance between those representations and evidence-based history is so important.
Also I really appreciate @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social !
