Tag Archives: Threads in the Age of Revolution

Liberty! or Liberty? // Revolution! or Revolution?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Jeanna Kadlec

We concluded our Age of Revolution seminar by walking Boston’s landmark Freedom Trail with historians and guides from the Boston National Historical Park Service and the Bostonian Society. Nat Sheildly, a historian from the Bostonian Society, discussed the challenges he … Continue reading →

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The Robespierre “Type” in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Jeanna Kadlec

Our excerpt of Julia Douthwaite’s The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France closed with a persuasive argument that representations of Robespierre post-Terror birthed a new kind of villain: the Enlightenment-bred individual whose good intentions, we might … Continue reading →

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Threads in the Age of Revolution

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Julia Gaffield, PhD

At the end of each of our seminar meetings, each participant suggests a thread or theme that they’d like to see carried forward in our next meeting or throughout the year. This week, we are turning the threads into a … Continue reading →

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