By Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus

Projects like Age of Revolutions are only sustained by partnership and the collective creativity of scholars, ready to devote their time, energy, and expertise to the project. Since our inception eight years ago, we have been devoted to making scholarship accessible to the general reader. We do our best to encourage authors to write in accessible prose, while we make sure that what they write is openly available to all. No subscription fee. No paywall. No advertising. This is our mission and to date, we are all proud of what we have accomplished. So, the theme of this year’s roundup is partnership.

This past year, we revived our publication of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era’s Selected Papers after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 conference went off without a hitch in Tallahassee. I remember sitting near the hotel pool talking about this virus that had certainly already made its way into the United States. 2021 took us online and 2022 saw a slow return to “normalcy.” In January, we will begin publishing papers from this year’s conference held at the University of North Texas. Next year’s conference in Baton Rouge is shaping up to be exceptional.

We also co-organized a series entitled “Exiled: Identity and Identification” with the European Research Council funded Atlantic Exiles project. This series explored the semantic evolution of exile and the lived experiences of people seeking refuge across the Atlantic World during the long nineteenth century. This series took place originally at the conference “Who is a Refugee? Concepts of Exile, Refuge and Asylum, c.1750-1850,” which took place on 30 June – 1 July 2022 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

With our editor, Megan Maruschke, we have also published essays two essays (with another couple coming soon) in collaboration with Commission internationale d’histoire de la Révolution française (CIHRF) following the August 2022 meeting of the International Committee of Historical Sciences at Poznań, Poland. The Commission convened a panel on “revolutionary nationalism in a global perspective” together with the Japanese and Korean National Committees and the Network of Global and World History Associations.

And, of course, no partnership is more important to Age of Revolutions’ success than that of our editorial board and our audience. We are ever grateful to our editors who help us edit pieces in a timely manner, and to all those who support this project through their readership.

On this our 8^th anniversary, then, we would like to thank everyone who helps makes this labor of love possible.

With gratitude,

BB & CE

Title image: Illustration of The Liberty Tree in Boston. From A History of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period, by Caleb H. Snow. Published in Boston by Abel Bowen; printed by Munroe and Francis, 1825.