***

Each year, we look back at Age of Revolutions stats and identify those pieces that received the most site traffic. Here are the top 10 most viewed pieces published in 2023 (in no particular order):

“Before Joaquin Phoenix, There was ‘Napoleon Gomersal’” by Luke Reynolds

“Revolutionary Royalty: Remembering Queen Marie-Louise of Haiti in Pisa” by Miriam Franchina

“The Dissolution of the Jesuits and the Birth of an Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory in the Age of Enlightenment” by Samuel Weber

“Confronting Slavery in the Museum, From New York to Nantes” by Meredith Martin

“Archives of Revolution” by Emma Hart, Sean Quimby, and Karin Wulf

“Against the Grain? Native Farming Practices and Settler-Colonial Imaginations in Empire: Total War” by Thomas Lecaque

“In the Streets of Le Cap: A Digital Mapping Project” by Carrie Glenn and Camille Cordier

“’If America doesn’t become America’: Outlander and the American Revolution” by Michelle Orihel

“George Washington in Barbados?” by Erica Johnson

“Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023): A Review” by Clare Siviter-Groschwald.

It started as a curiosity and each year we are surprised by the number of articles we published in years past end up with more site views that work we published this past calendar year. Here are the top 10 most revisited pieces published from 2015-2022 (in no particular order):

“’I Will Return and I will be Millions!’ The Many Lives of Túpac Amaru” by Miguel La Serna

“Ending World History Part One in … 1763?” by Rob Taber

“The Rise and Fall of the French Royal Mistress” by Christine Adams and Tracy Adams

“Join, or Die: Why did it have to be Snakes?” by J.L. Bell

“A Sexual Revolution in the Eighteenth Century?” by Julie Hardwick

“4 Cautionary Tales from the French Revolution for Today” by Christine Adams

“Why did Edmund Burke call the French Revolution a Democratic Revolution?” by Salih Emre Gercek

“’She had Smothered her Baby on Purpose’: Enslaved Women and Maternal Resistance” by Signe Peterson Fourmy

“Hobsbawm on Nationalism and Revolution” by Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz

“Crispus Attucks: American Revolutionary Hero?” by Mitch Kachun

Want to see your research end up in our top 10 list? Send us a pitch!

Leave a comment