By Samuel Marquis Like many important Indigenous American historical figures, the young war captain and statesman Lawrence the Mohawk was recognized in his own Age of Revolution for his leadership,…

By Pedro David Correa Pérez In 1930, Senator Joseph Ransdell introduced a resolution to the United States Congress calling for an investigation into the violations that the dictatorship of Juan Vic…

By Charlton Yingling and Marissa Yingling “It shows, in a strong light, the heaves and throes of the burning mountain, three years, at least, before the explosion of the volcano in Massachusetts or…

By Charleton and Marissa Yingling “It shows, in a strong light, the heaves and throes of the burning mountain, three years, at least, before the explosion of the volcano in Massachusetts or Virgini…

By Robert D. Taber Dress and grooming standards are often political. In the contemporary United States, this ranges from Sikhs in the US military advocating to wear turbans as part of their uniform…

By Robert D. Taber Dress and grooming standards are often political. In the contemporary United States, this ranges from Sikhs in the US military advocating to wear turbans as part of their uniform…

By Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV A map of the Holy Roman Empire near the end of the eighteenth century does not resemble a modern national map of Europe. Its surface breaks into electorates, duc…

Patrick J. Mahoney, The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism (NYU Press, 2026). In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads…

By Shubham Yadav The imagery that revolution invokes depends on the standpoint of the spectator. Revolution, for the elites and powerholders, is bloody, chaotic, disruptive, and tumultuous.[1] For …

By Hugo Sanchez Aranguren American audiences often know Simón Bolívar as the “George Washington of South America.” The analogy orients, but it compresses a life of revolution, contradiction, and st…

By Catherine Fletcher The title The Firearm Revolution arose from my observation that guns got significantly less attention in the scholarly literature than the parallel “print revolution”. In the …

By Catherine Fletcher The title The Firearm Revolution arose from my observation that guns got significantly less attention in the scholarly literature than the parallel “print revolution”. In the …

By Laura June Davis Living in the state of Georgia—the newest, most remote, and most intimately connected colony to Great Britain during the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras—students often view the …

UPDATE: New blog post with reflection on additional resources and framing such that Black Lives Matter. Image of a Jamaican maroon, 1796. Wikipedia, via DiG History Podcast This page builds on a bl…

By Aran MacKinnon Anyone interested in broadening the scope of teaching about the Age of Revolutions should explore the compelling stories of state formations in southern African history and histor…

***** Carlo Ginzburg is professor emeritus at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books, including The Chees…

By Aran MacKinnon Anyone interested in broadening the scope of teaching about the Age of Revolutions should explore the compelling stories of state formations in southern African history and histor…

By Bryan A. Banks The Second Amendment to the US Constitution reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms,…

By Katlyn Carter In Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories, Miranda Spieler questions the notion that there were no slaves in France.[1] She follows five individuals over the course o…

By Katlyn Carter In Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories, Miranda Spieler questions the notion that there were no slaves in France.[1] She follows five individuals over the course o…

By Claudia Suárez In the early morning of December 3, 2007, President Hugo Chávez addressed the Venezuelan nation in a joint broadcast after his first electoral defeat. It was the culmination of an…

By Farzeen Nasri The U.S. president’s public encouragement of peaceful Iranian demonstrators to act more defiantly in January 2026,[1] paired with explicit and unambiguous promises that American su…

By M.A. Davis It’s 1972. Amid ratcheting global tension, everyone is worried the next world war will turn nuclear. In North America, tensions are high between the Confederation of North Ameri…

By M.A. Davis It’s 1972. Amid ratcheting global tension, everyone is worried the next world war will turn nuclear. In North America, tensions are high between the Confederation of North Ameri…

By Marlon Londoño Reporters have written much about the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” in the wake of the January 3, 2026, U.S. military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. Observers h…

By Marlon Londoño Reporters have written much about the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” in the wake of the January 3, 2026, U.S. military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. Observers h…

By Marlon Londoño Reporters have written much about the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” in the wake of the January 3, 2026, U.S. military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. Observers h…

By Marlon Londoño Reporters have written much about the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” in the wake of the January 3, 2026, U.S. military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. Observers h…

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By Daniel Runnels The photo of a detained Nicolás Maduro circulated worldwide on the morning after his capture is visual evidence of the definitive end of what was once called the Pink Tide in Lati…

By Daniel Runnels The photo of a detained Nicolás Maduro circulated worldwide on the morning after his capture is visual evidence of the definitive end of what was once called the Pink Tide in Lati…

By Thomas Lecaque This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Patrick Lecaque, 1/15/1949-10/11/2025, who taught his son the joy of history, of research, of discovery, and to find the individuals…

By Katlyn Carter In Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories, Miranda Spieler questions the notion that there were no slaves in France.[1] She follows five individuals over the course o…

*** Enter by 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, March 13 for your chance to win! About Backcountry Resistance: The British capture of Charleston, South Carolina, in May 1780 appeared to be a major blow to the…

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<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 Age of Revolutions,