Jim Ambuske
@jimambuske.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jamespambuske.com
www.jamespambuske.com
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 21 "The Vengeance"
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
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We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
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November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
On December 2nd, join @lynnprobbins.bsky.social, @adamxmcneil.bsky.social, and me for a special LIVE episode of Revolutions in Retrospect.
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
We're taking your questions about what you learned, or didn't, from The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-americ...
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
I have often wondered if, as General Howe rowed across the river to Breeds Hill, his mind drifted back to his brother, Lord George Howe, who was killed at the Battle of Ticonderoga in July 1758. The colony of Massachusetts Bay erected a monument to Lord Howe in Westminster Abbey #HATM
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I have often wondered if, as General Howe rowed across the river to Breeds Hill, his mind drifted back to his brother, Lord George Howe, who was killed at the Battle of Ticonderoga in July 1758. The colony of Massachusetts Bay erected a monument to Lord Howe in Westminster Abbey #HATM
I've never had reason to care or read about James Garfield, but good lord "Death by Lightning" makes me want to do both in earnest. Outstanding performances by Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen as James Garfield and Charles Guiteau respectively.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I've never had reason to care or read about James Garfield, but good lord "Death by Lightning" makes me want to do both in earnest. Outstanding performances by Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen as James Garfield and Charles Guiteau respectively.
Surprise! @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social and I have teamed up with @lynnprobbins.bsky.social and @patricklong.bsky.social at Primary Source Media to bring you Revolutions in Retrospect, a podcast that explores the histories of the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world.
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Surprise! @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social and I have teamed up with @lynnprobbins.bsky.social and @patricklong.bsky.social at Primary Source Media to bring you Revolutions in Retrospect, a podcast that explores the histories of the revolutions that remade the Atlantic world.
Tomorrow! The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse welcomes Linford D. Fisher of Brown University to discuss "Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas"
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Sign up to join the coversation! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tomorrow! The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse welcomes Linford D. Fisher of Brown University to discuss "Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas"
Sign up to join the coversation! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
Sign up to join the coversation! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
Team: Are you or one of your students interested in podcasting the past? Check out this great internship opportunity from my friends at Primary Source Media!
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Team: Are you or one of your students interested in podcasting the past? Check out this great internship opportunity from my friends at Primary Source Media!
NOW PLAYING: Episode 20: The Rebellion
With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord.
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With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord.
podcasts.rrchnm.org/show/worlds-...
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 20: The Rebellion
With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord.
podcasts.rrchnm.org/show/worlds-...
With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord.
podcasts.rrchnm.org/show/worlds-...
Registration is now open for the 2025 Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Conference to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on November 12th.
We've a great line up (which will be available shortly).
Best of all, the conference is free! daic.virginia.edu/2025/registr...
We've a great line up (which will be available shortly).
Best of all, the conference is free! daic.virginia.edu/2025/registr...
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Registration is now open for the 2025 Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Conference to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture on November 12th.
We've a great line up (which will be available shortly).
Best of all, the conference is free! daic.virginia.edu/2025/registr...
We've a great line up (which will be available shortly).
Best of all, the conference is free! daic.virginia.edu/2025/registr...
Spent a terrific morning at Pratt Institute: Brooklyn yesterday for the Incite-Columbia U Oral Storytelling Symposium. I gave a talk about the production Worlds Turned Upside Down, and then led a short script development workshop based on Incite's Elder's Project incite.columbia.edu/projects/the...
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Spent a terrific morning at Pratt Institute: Brooklyn yesterday for the Incite-Columbia U Oral Storytelling Symposium. I gave a talk about the production Worlds Turned Upside Down, and then led a short script development workshop based on Incite's Elder's Project incite.columbia.edu/projects/the...
In one week, The Rebellion begins.
Check out this preview of Worlds Turned Upside Down: Episode 20: The Rebellion and be sure to catch up on previous episodes before British regulars make their way down the road to Lexington and Concord.
Check out this preview of Worlds Turned Upside Down: Episode 20: The Rebellion and be sure to catch up on previous episodes before British regulars make their way down the road to Lexington and Concord.
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In one week, The Rebellion begins.
Check out this preview of Worlds Turned Upside Down: Episode 20: The Rebellion and be sure to catch up on previous episodes before British regulars make their way down the road to Lexington and Concord.
Check out this preview of Worlds Turned Upside Down: Episode 20: The Rebellion and be sure to catch up on previous episodes before British regulars make their way down the road to Lexington and Concord.
I'm delighted to be presenting at the Pratt & Columbia/Incite Oral Storytelling Symposium next week on narrative history audio storytelling. If you'll be in Brooklyn, come join us for a fascinating series of talks and workshops!
www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-colu...
www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-colu...
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm delighted to be presenting at the Pratt & Columbia/Incite Oral Storytelling Symposium next week on narrative history audio storytelling. If you'll be in Brooklyn, come join us for a fascinating series of talks and workshops!
www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-colu...
www.eventbrite.com/e/pratt-colu...
Here's the line up!
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Here's the line up!
Awfully kind review for Worlds Turned Upside Down
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Awfully kind review for Worlds Turned Upside Down
NOW PLAYING: Episode 19: The Gambit
With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.
#podcast #history
With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.
#podcast #history
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Terrific "Taking Stock and Setting Agendas" meeting this past weekend @theitps.bsky.social centered on early American studies and digital history. Thanks to @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, @ben-wright.bsky.social, & Mark Boonshoft for the chance to present "Hard of Hearing: Podcasting Early America."
September 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Terrific "Taking Stock and Setting Agendas" meeting this past weekend @theitps.bsky.social centered on early American studies and digital history. Thanks to @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, @ben-wright.bsky.social, & Mark Boonshoft for the chance to present "Hard of Hearing: Podcasting Early America."
This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Still one of the best titles out there:
Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social
Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Still one of the best titles out there:
Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social
Dunmore’s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America -- with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings. @uvapress.bsky.social
NOW PLAYING: Episode 18: The Resurrection
Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.
www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.
www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
August 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NOW PLAYING: Episode 18: The Resurrection
Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.
www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.
www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
Coming Soon: Episode 18: The Resurrection.
Catch up on past episodes here: www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
Catch up on past episodes here: www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Coming Soon: Episode 18: The Resurrection.
Catch up on past episodes here: www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
Catch up on past episodes here: www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
Spotted in the wild @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social!
August 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Spotted in the wild @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social!