Bryan Banks

A Tenth Revolution Around the Sun By Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus  Ten years ago, we published our first essays on Age of Revolutions (AoR). Not yet knowing how the site would evolve, …

AoR is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some special news/updates! ageofrevolutions.com/2025/12/01/a...

BOOK RAFFLE: ENTANGLED ALLIANCES Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Corne…

Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...

Happy birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social, and congrats to @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social on this achievement.

Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.

Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!

“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …

We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...

Still so very proud of my students who put together this podcast last year! csuepress.columbusstate.edu/lafayette-po...

“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy”: Burke’s Tragicomic Reflections on the French Revolution, Part 2″ By Jack Zapotochny Click here to read part 1. Part 2: The Reflections and Restoration Tragedy Edmund Burke represented the French Revolution as an affront to tradition and historical progress, pers…

Edmund Burke’s reflections on the French Revolution remain as biting as ever—tragic, comic, and deeply unsettling. This new piece explores how Burke wrestled with the collapse of kingship and the rise of revolutionary chaos.

👉 Read Part II here: ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/17/t...

Listen to an interview I did on my book, Write to Return, with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! newbooksnetwork.com/write-to-ret...

“The Tomb of the Murdered Monarchy”: Burke’s Tragicomic Reflections on the French Revolution By Jack Zapotochny Part 1: Burke and Scriblerian Satire In the late eighteenth century, ideologues sought to shape public opinion with short polemical pamphlets. Perhaps more than any other work in…

“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!

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Loyalty Oaths and the Crisis of the American Revolution This post is a part of the 2025 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 R…

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...

Returning to the Great Pigeon Massacre book means rereading everything I’ve written and planning forward. #amreading #amwriting copiously in the margins…

I use it to listen to my writing sometimes, when I’m editing.

With one major project completely off my desk, it is time to turn back to the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. I miss Twitter sometimes for how I used it to keep myself accountable. I'm going to try and use bsky in the same way. Are there hashtags for this? #Team500? CC: @drsepinwall.bsky.social

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 “Op-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 🗃️

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

The Global Age of Revolutions <p><b>Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions</b></p><p>In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com

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/

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

So grateful to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for their time and care and for giving me space to have a verrrrrrry "thinking out loud" piece.

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A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

@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...

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

Check out what our awesome blurb writers, Marlene Daut and Robert Darnton, have to say about volume!

Here's the TOC! Feb. 2026.

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

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....

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...

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

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

The Unessay – AHA A popular assignment format meets students—and audiences—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...

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

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, “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...