The End(s) of Revolution
Symposium
Howard Brown, Laurent Dubois, Jill Lepore,
April 25, 2014
2:00-5:00pm Mandel G03News
Announcing Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society
Tags
- American Revolution
- Art of Americas
- captain america
- charlotte smith
- citizen
- citizenship
- Civil War
- counter-revolution
- Counterrevolution
- Definition
- definitions
- french revolution
- gender
- haitian constitution
- Haitian Revolution
- helen maria williams
- Historiography
- ideology
- julia douthwaite
- literature
- madame roland
- marie-olympe de gouges
- mary wollstonecraft
- material culture
- MFA
- Narrative
- Politics
- primary sources
- print culture
- representation
- Revolution
- robespierre
- sensibility
- sentimental novel
- sophia rosenfeld
- Sources
- Subjectivity
- terror
- the public sphere
- Threads in the Age of Revolution
- Toussaint Louverture
- traitors
- treason
- William Wordsworth
- Women
Tag Archives: primary sources
Newspapers and Revolution
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
Thinking Citizenship
“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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Tagged citizen, citizenship, definitions, haitian constitution, helen maria williams, ideology, primary sources, sophia rosenfeld
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William Henry Drayton and the Meaning of Revolution
One of my broader intellectual goals in this seminar is to track down the origins of the term “American Revolution.” In other words, when did eighteenth-century Americans begin using the phrase to describe what they were about, and what meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, definitions, primary sources, print culture
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