Top Articles of 2024

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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 2024 (in no particular order):

“Should We Compare the French and American Revolutions?” by Katlyn Marie Carter

“Fleeing Enslaver Mindsets, Re-envisioning the Archives: Sara Johnson’s Encyclopédie noire” by Alyssa Sepinwall

“Before the ‘Haitian Turn’: French Historians and Slavery Over the Twentieth Century” by Alyssa Sepinwall

“Generating the Age of Revolutions: An Interview with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal”

“Marshal Ney and the Art of the Retreat” by Wayne Hanley

“Ignorance is Bliss, or Teaching the Dangers of Teleology with the Great Cat Massacre” by Peter Walker

“The Age of Revolutions Under the Microscope” by Roberto Breña

“The Conquest of Quebec and Puritan Apocalypticism” by Thomas Lecaque

“The Roussillon Campaign of 1793-4: Spain’s Lost Opportunity” by Michael C. Hamel

“At the Center of the Mediterranean: The Italian Peninsula’s Role during the French Revolution” by Paolo Conte

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 2015-2023 (in no particular order):

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

“Friendship and Sociability: A Reexamination of Benjamin Franklin’s Friendship with Madame Brillon de Jouy” by Kelsa Pellettiere

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

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

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

“Touring the Haitian Revolution: A Photo Journal” by Paul Clammer

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

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

Hobsbawm on Nationalism and Revolution” by Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz

“Role-Playing the French Revolution, Reacting to the Past in the Classroom” by Meghan Roberts

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