American Revolutions in the Digital Age

The interdisciplinary essays in American Revolutions in the Digital Age explore what digital tools can tell us about the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States and reveal how an understanding of the American past can make sense of our digital present.

By employing a host of innovative digital research methods, these authors challenge long-held assumptions about the American past. In addition, this collection uniquely demonstrates how contemporary anxieties about an array of topics, including media disinformation, patriarchy, economic inequality, and public memory, can be better understood through careful considerations of early American history.

Open Access edition funded by Iona University

Nora Slonimsky is Associate Professor of history and Director of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS) at Iona University. She is the Social Media Editor for the Journal of the Early Republic, the reviews editor for SHARP News, and the author of the forthcoming The Engine of Free Expression.

Mark Boonshoft is Associate Professor and Conrad M. Hall ’65 Chair in American Constitutional History at Virginia Military Institute and author of Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic.

Ben Wright is Associate Professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Bonds of Salvation and coeditor of The American Yawp.

Contributors: Joseph M. Adelman, Benjamin Bankhurst Dorothy Berry, Gary Berton, Christian Boylston, Lindsay Chervinsky, Sara Collini, Kyle K. Courtney, Michael Crowder, Christy Hyman, Maeve E Kane, Lubomir Ivanov, Afshawn Lotfi, Molly Nebiolo, Marcus P. Nevius, Jessica Parr, Smiljana Petrovic, Brad Rittenhouse, Kyle Roberts, Cameron Shriver, Whitney Nell Stewart, and Jordan Taylor.