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Revolutions of endless possibilities?

Posted on December 24, 2013 by g271187

This blog post was inspired by Cassandra’s and Jeanna’s explorations of the role of women in the revolutions of the 18th century. In her blog, Cassandra highlights that the opportunities offered to women during the American Revolution were not without … Continue reading →

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Revolution and Modernity

Posted on December 24, 2013 by g271187

In his blog post “Print Culture and the Problematics of Revolution”, Haram referred to “the frictions and pressures that post-colonial nation-states encounter in the process of incorporation within the socio-political and cultural matrix of Western modernity.” This sentence brings up … Continue reading →

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Sensibility and Revolution: A Case Study

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jeanna Kadlec

In seminar this week, we started to talk about the discourse of sensibility. Sensibility was particularly prominent in Mary Ashburn Miller’s article, in which she linked sensibility to authenticity. Miller writes, “The more passionate an individual during the phase of … Continue reading →

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The Many Lives of Fortune Freeman

Posted on December 10, 2013 by John Hannigan

This is a blog about people in revolution. Specifically, it’s a blog about documents and what they can and cannot tells us about the people who participate in revolutions. It is inspired by something Kathleen DuVal said at our November … Continue reading →

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Spinning Revolution

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Cassandra Berman

In our last seminar meeting of the semester, we focused on material culture, discussing the ways in which the study of “things” can deepen and nuance our understanding of revolution. I found this seminar theme particularly useful in complicating the … Continue reading →

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Print Culture and the Problematics of Revolution

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Haram Lee

Preparing the bibliography on the periodicals in the age of revolution as an assignment in our seminar, I had a chance to glimpse an immense depository of the scholarship which deals with the print culture in the United States, France, … 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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Civil War and the Haitian Revolution

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Julia Gaffield, PhD

For our first meeting, participants of the seminar read a chapter by David Armitage, “Every Great Revolution is a Civil War,” forthcoming in Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein, eds., Scripting Revolutions (Stanford, 2014). “When tracing the genealogy of the … Continue reading →

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Newspapers and Revolution

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Cassandra Berman

In his excellent essay “Reading the Republic: Newspapers in Early America,” historian Jeffrey L. Pasley – an upcoming guest in our seminar – engages in a curious exercise.  In order to contextualize the political and social world of the Early … Continue reading →

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Thinking Citizenship

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Jeanna Kadlec

“Citizenship” was a topic that came up briefly during our last seminar, and I wanted to raise it as a subject for more discussion here. What are the varying categories of “citizen” or “citizenship” that we think of when discussing … Continue reading →

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