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Bryan Banks

@bryanbanksphd.bsky.social

Historian of France/Atlantic World, Assoc. Prof, Book on Huguenot refugees. Working on a book about the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. Co-founder www.AgeofRevolutions.com, he/they

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

04.10.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Check out what our awesome blurb writers, Marlene Daut and Robert Darnton, have to say about volume!

04.10.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's the TOC! Feb. 2026.

04.10.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social

04.10.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Please help VERONICA VANVALKENBURGH Raise Funds for HARRIS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND Our group is having a fundraiser and you can help!

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....

23.09.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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!
πŸ“– Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/23/i...

23.09.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social

19.09.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

16.09.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Unessay – AHA A popular assignment format meets studentsβ€”and audiencesβ€”where they are.

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...

16.09.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

16.09.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sex under the Guillotine: Women, Prison, and the French Revolution By Oriane Guiziou-Lamour For the last few years, France has seen a growing interest in rediscovering women authors from the modern period, whose works were either lost or purposefully erased from l…

Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s latest piece, β€œSex 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...

08.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Doric. Ionic. Corinthian. Spreadsheet.

04.09.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Show Trials? Legal Process in the British Army’s Justice System By Zack White In a well-received analysis of the British Army in the West Indies, Roger Norman Buckley described that the force’s military justice system as β€œcapricious and arbitrary.”[1] Buckley’s…

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...

02.09.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Write to Return | McGill-Queen’s University Press McGill-Queen’s University Press

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...

06.05.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public
YouTube video by American Historical Association Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public

Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed? Watch β€œOp-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 πŸ—ƒοΈ

26.08.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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

25.07.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Podcast Review: Mother Country Radicals By Evan Atchison (Writing Resistance podcast), Sydney Hugdahl (Under the Mushroom Cloud podcast), and Averill Earls (Dig: A History Podcast) Mother Country Radicals. Crooked Media. Podcast audio. 2…

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...

21.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Carson McCullers; nurturing writers and musicians, educating young people; and fostering literary, musica...

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...

18.07.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today in "I β™₯️ 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!" 😍

09.07.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public
YouTube video by American Historical Association Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public

Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed? Watch β€œOp-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 πŸ—ƒοΈ

08.07.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t wait for @cindyermus.bsky.social and my edited collection on the global Age of Revolutions to come out next year, just in time for the anniversary of the American Revolution.

19.06.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

18 chapters AND an epilogue by Lynn Hunt!

20.06.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pssst… It’s blurbed by Marlene Daut AND Robert Darnton too!

20.06.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t wait for @cindyermus.bsky.social and my edited collection on the global Age of Revolutions to come out next year, just in time for the anniversary of the American Revolution.

19.06.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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A good visualization to challenge your terracentricism CC: @marcusrediker.bsky.social

16.06.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 463    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4
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Dear color coders out there. Please stop.

09.06.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Politics of Crisis in Historical Perspective By Mikkel Flohr Crisis is a central concept in contemporary political discourse; we are constantly told that we are in crisis – often several crises at once. We have endured several financial and g…

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...

09.06.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Come work with me! TT History Education position! careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/...

03.06.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Bastille and the Roundabout
Popular Protest and the Revolutionary Past of the Gilets Jaunes
Andrew W. M. Smith

The Bastille and the Roundabout Popular Protest and the Revolutionary Past of the Gilets Jaunes Andrew W. M. Smith

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

03.06.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel the same regularly bsky.app/profile/hist...

27.05.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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