About Us
Revolutionary Histories is passionate about storytelling.
We believe that people want complex histories told with empathy and nuance that empowers audiences to see themselves in the past.
At Revolutionary Histories, we craft stories grounded in original and ongoing research to illuminate the hidden, unexpected, and even well-known voices to challenge your assumptions.
Founded in 2025 by Jeanette Patrick and Jim Ambuske, we have decades of experience in communicating the past to public audiences.
We specialize in narrative documentary-style podcasts and interview series. With production involvement in more than ten series with nearly half a million downloads, our work has spanned from the era of the American Revolution and Jane Austen’s world to slavery in the United States and the rivers and woods of the Appalachian Trail.
If you’re interested in working with us, please reach out!
Meet the Team
Jeanette Patrick
Founder
Jeanette Patrick is an award-winning public historian and podcaster. She was previously the Head of R2 Studios, the podcast division of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At R2 Studios, she oversaw the development and production of all the studio’s podcasts and released over 100 episodes.
In previous positions at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the National Women’s History Museum, Patrick created a wide variety of in-person and digital content, including writing web pages, timelines, and scripts used to produce audio and AR tours, live action films, animated videos, podcasts, and livestreams. She has coordinated and run live broadcasts, developed walking tours and field trips, and trained and managed staff, fellows, interns, and tour guides. Patrick has also created student and teacher resources and experiences based on common themes, people, and events found in social studies curricula across the country.
Jim Ambuske
Founder
Jim Ambuske is a historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 2016. He is the author and co-author of several publications on the American Revolution, transatlantic legal history, and King George III. Ambuske is also the lead scholar and narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down and the co-host of Revolutions in Retrospect with Dr. Lynn Price Robbins.
When he is not behind the mic, Ambuske is working on a book about emigration from Scotland in the era of the American Revolution. Ambuske is formerly the co-head of R2 Studios, a division of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and former director of the Center for Digital History at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. He is also a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law Library, Ambuske co-directed the 1828 Catalouge Project and the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project.