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Haitian Revolution

Revolutionary Things: Material Culture & Politics in the Atlantic World

June 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Revolutionary ThingsIn her new book Revolutionary Things: Material Culture & Politics in the Late Eighteenth- Century Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2023), Ashli White of the University of Miami, explores the circulation of material culture during the America, French, and Haitian revolutions.
[Read more…] about Revolutionary Things: Material Culture & Politics in the Atlantic World

Filed Under: Arts, Books, Events Tagged With: American Revolution, ceramics, Cultural History, Fiber Arts - Textiles, French Revolution, Furniture, Haitian Revolution, Maps, Massachusetts Historical Society, Material Culture

1763-1848: The Age of Revolutions

December 27, 2017 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldBetween 1763 and 1848, an age of revolutions took place in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. But why is it that we only seem to remember the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Haitian Revolution?

Given that the American Revolution took place before all of these other revolutions, what was its role in influencing this larger “Age of Revolutions?” Did it influence this larger period?

Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History’s exploration of what the American Revolution looked like within the larger period known as the “Age of Revolutions” continues as Janet Polasky, a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Revolutions Without Borders: The Call of Liberty in the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2015), guides us through the period to explore answers to these questions. [Read more…] about 1763-1848: The Age of Revolutions

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Anti-Rent War, French And Indian War, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, Podcasts, Revolutions of 1848, Seven Years War

Making Sense of the Haitian Revolution in Early America

March 15, 2017 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldWhat did the American Revolution mean and achieve? What sort of liberty and freedom did independence grant Americans and which Americans should receive them?

Americans grappled with these questions soon after the American Revolution. They debated these issues during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, in the first congresses, and as they followed events in revolutionary France and Haiti during the 1790s and early 1800s. [Read more…] about Making Sense of the Haitian Revolution in Early America

Filed Under: Books, History, New York City Tagged With: American Revolution, French History, French Revolution, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Podcasts, Political History

Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

November 12, 2015 by Kathleen Hulser 2 Comments

Madame+Jume_RGB.BillOrcuttArtist Camilla Huey has a close to the skin interpretation of founding father Aaron Burr. While we know about his schemes to gain and keep political power, Huey tempts us to think about Burr’s gender politics. Was the former Vice-President who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel, a full-fledged Lothario, or might there be another story?

The film “The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Binding and Corsetry”  premiering at Symphony Space at 95th St. and Broadway in Manhattan on Saturday, November 14 at noon offers a much more complicated and nuanced view of the man and his significant female others.  As Thomas Paine wrote in that revolutionary era “If we take a survey of the countries and the ages… we will find the women adored and oppressed. Man who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power,  in paying homage to their beauty has always availed himself of their weakness… at once their tyrant and their slave.” [Read more…] about Corset Portraits of the Loves of Aaron Burr

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Aaron Burr, Documentary, Fashion History, Gender History, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Material Culture, Political History, womens history

Early United States-Haitian Diplomacy

October 28, 2015 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldMuch like the United States, the colonists of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) sought their independence from France by fighting a war and waging a revolution. However, unlike the Americans, the San Dominguans who fought the war and waged the revolution were predominantly African and Caribbean-born slaves.

In this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, we explore the Haitian Revolution and the quest of both the United States and Saint Domingue to establish diplomatic and trade relations with each other. [Read more…] about Early United States-Haitian Diplomacy

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: French History, Haitian Revolution, Podcasts

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