generations

Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'

Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.

People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.

Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.

A new book celebrates an American political dynasty dedicated to public service. Why have they been forgotten?

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats.

While going out on a date may seem like a natural thing to do these days, it wasn't always the case.

Brea Baker on Black land ownership, historical injustice, and the hope for Black Americans to own more than one percent of the land.

The U.S. government’s failure to recognize nuclear Downwinders in New Mexico is part of a broader failure to reckon with the legacies of the Manhattan Project.

Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.

As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.

“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”

In this new hobby, I found so many stories.

Marronage as a placemaking practice, pointing to histories that shape and inspire abolitionist struggles.

A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.

The rich history of Japanese-language literature challenges assumptions about what counts as U.S. art.

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors

Rewriting the history and future of an iconic suburb.

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.

The Icarians thought they could build a paradise, but their project was marked by failure almost from the start.

Often dismissed as a “trash fish,” the porgy is an anchor of Black maritime culture.

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.