Tag Janet Polasky

July 19, 2016
in American History, History

Extra, Extra, Read all about Jacques the Jacobin

July 19, 2016
in American History, History

Janet Polasky— Jacques the Jacobin did not actually exist. His was a fictional account published in the most widely read of the multitude of new French newspapers, Les Révolutions de Paris (Revolutions of Paris) to draw the uninitiated into the realm of politics. If pamphlets opened revolutionary discussions, newspapers amplified

August 17, 2015
in American History, Current Affairs, European History, History, Social Science

Revolutionary Ideas in the Atlantic World

August 17, 2015
in American History, Current Affairs, European History, History, Social Science

Janet Polasky— The interconnections of today’s global society are inescapable. So why should we imagine that the founding fathers dreamed of freedom in isolation? The Atlantic World had never been as tightly interconnected as at the end of the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the Arab Spring, without electronic social