Posts Tagged ‘women’
Tying Up the Twisted History of the Braddock Sash (Boston 1775)
An interesting history-related post from Boston 1775:
Buchanan’s history of the sash explains for the first time fully how it traveled from Gen. Braddock to Gen. George Washington to Gen. Edmund Gaines to Gen. Taylor. However, it doesn’t explain how Buchanan came by that knowledge. Had ...
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“The missing sash of Gen. Braddock” (Boston 1775)
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Yesterday I quoted Wills De Hass’s 1851 account of how Gen. Edward Braddock’s sash passed through George Washington’s hands into the possession of Gen. Zachary Taylor in 1846. Taylor took the sash to the White House when he was elected President in the wake of the Mexican-American War. And suddenly he died in 1850. De Hass’s remarks about the Braddock sash were repeated in various nineteenth-century histories, but no one added new information. But in 1894 a report appeared in the Winchester (Virginia) News, picked up in the 31 May Baltimore Sun. After a dramatic description ...
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Stuart on Defiant Brides in Worcester, 6 June (Boston 1775)
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The defiant brides of the title are Lucy Flucker and Peggy Shippen, both heiresses from Loyalist families who married striving men on the Patriot side of the Revolution.
Or rather, Lucy Flucker’s husband, Henry Knox, became a firm Whig when the war broke out. As I’ve written in the past, the evidence of his political activity before 1775 is sparse, and I suspect her family ...
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Lloyd on Ordinary Bostonians, 1700-1850, on 30 May (Boston 1775)
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The event’s description says:
Join us as Joanne Lloyd, Ph.D., discusses her book Beneath the City on the Hill. Like the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers and the well known writers and intellectuals who garnered early-19th-century Boston the honorific “Athens in America,” the ordinary people; the sailors, fiddlers, Irish servants, African slaves, brothel workers and liquor sellers had a hand in the making of colonial and early republic Boston. ...
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Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky (Religion in American History)
An interesting history-related post from Religion in American History:
Kentucky isn’t the first place that comes to mind when talking about Arabs and Jews. Not surprisingly, when I mention my book, Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity, initial responses go something like there are Arabs and Jews in Kentucky? Can’t be many? No, Kentucky’s population does not resemble New York’s or Michigan’s where Arabs and Jews abound, but Kentuckians who are also Arab ...
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Two Talks at the Royall House & Slave Quarters (Boston 1775)
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On Wednesday, 15 May, Henry Wiencek will speak on his book Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves.
In his provocative study, Wiencek argues that the author of the Declaration of Independence shifted his position on slavery for financial reasons, after becoming convinced that the only way to make a success of his debt-ridden plantation was through what he called the “silent profits” gained from those he enslaved.Wiencek is also author of The Hairstons: An American ...
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Luther Blanchard, Fifer (Boston 1775)
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Luther was also one of the first people wounded during the North Bridge skirmish. In A History of the Fight at Concord (1827), Ezra Ripley wrote:
In a minute or two, the Americans being in quick motion, and within ten or fifteen rods of the bridge, a single gun was fired by a ...
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“Turtius Bass and wife are parted.” (Boston 1775)
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Turtius Bass and wife are parted. He has sold the House and land which his Sons liv’d in and divided his Estate into four parts, given his wife one fourth part, one half to his two Sons. The remainder he has taken to support himself and Nell Underwood in their Perigrinations to the Eastward [i.e., Maine] whither he is going he says ...
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Saltpetre in Braintree (Boston 1775)
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Abigail wrote back to John in Philadelphia:
You inquire of whether I am making Salt peter. I have not yet attempted it, but after Soap making believe I shall make the experiment. I find as much as I can do to manufacture cloathing for my family which ...
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Saltpetre in Braintree (Boston 1775)
An interesting history-related post from Boston 1775:
Abigail wrote back to John in Philadelphia:
You inquire of whether I am making Salt peter. I have not yet attempted it, but after Soap making believe I shall make the experiment. I find as much as I can do to manufacture cloathing for my family which ...
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Traveling Through the Lost Land: Latina Pentecostal Women and Labor History in Texas (Religion in American History)
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A few weeks ago, I continued my farewell tour through Texas by stopping in San Antonio. I will spare you the deconstruction of the Alamo--that is really beating a dead horse.
One striking image in the midst of my Alamo visit was memorable enough to include here. In between the choral singing of the "Yellow Rose of Texas," a procession of military guard, and a group rendition of "Deep in the Heart of Texas," I walked across the street to one of the vendor shops to see if there was a trinket worth buying. Beneath a ...
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British women voted 75 years before 1918 suffrage (The History Blog)
An interesting history-related post from The History Blog:
A dozen hand-written sheets in a box of old solicitor’s records in Lichfield, a cathedral city in Staffordshire, England, bear surprising witness to women voting in a local election in 1843, 11 years after the Great Reform Act restricted the parliamentary franchise to “male persons,” 8 years after the Municipal Corporations Act forbade women from voting in town council elections, 26 years before the Municipal Franchise Act re-granted women taxpayers (later restricted to single women or widows) the vote in local council elections, and a full 75 years before the 1918 Representation of the People Act granted women over ...
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March 2, 1973: Women Begin Pilot Training for the US Navy (Naval History Blog)
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Pensacola, Florida: The first four women chosen to undergo flight training. From left, LTJG. Barbara Allen of Chula Vista, California; ENS. Jane M. Skiles of Des Moines, Iowa; LTJG. Judith A. Neuffer of Wooster, Ohio; and ENS. Kathleen L. McNary of Plainfield, Illinois.
The first four women chosen to undergo aviation training report for their flight physical exams at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute and Research Laboratory at the Naval Air Station.
Lt. Pat McNulty, right, an instructor at Naval Air Station Saufley Field, gives women officer candidates their first explanation of the parachute they will be using ...
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Seeing the Death of Christopher Seider (Boston 1775)
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Another would be the big broadside titled “Major-General James Wolfe, who reach’d the summit of human glory, September 13th, 1759,” that I described back here. According to the Boston Evening-Post, Christopher had a copy in his pocket when he died, showing early signs of “a martial genius.” So far as I ...
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Grizzell Apthorp: Widow, Employer, Property Owner (Boston 1775)
An interesting history-related post from Boston 1775:
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The sitter was born Grizzell Eastwick in Jamaica. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Lloyd, a baronet. Grizzell’s family moved to Boston in 1716, and ten years later she married Charles Apthorp (1698-1758) at King’s Chapel. They were part of a class of wealthy Anglicans who had a lot of money from Caribbean sugar plantations and slave labor.
Charles Apthorp earned even more money as a merchant and supplier ...
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The Triangle Fire (American History Blog)
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On March 25, 1911, as 500 of its young women workers were preparing to leave for the day, a fire broke out on the eighth floor. Within minutes, the fire had spread out of control. Workers panicked. Some crowded into ...
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More Upcoming History Seminars (Boston 1775)
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On Thursday, 7 February, at 5:30 P.M. in the series on the History of Women and Gender Jennifer Morgan of New York University will present “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slave Law and the History of Women in Slavery.” Linda Heywood of Boston University will comment on the paper, and then the discussion will be open to all attendees.
This conversation will take place at the Schlesinger Library ...
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School Vacation with the Reveres (Boston 1775)
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“The Revere Family at Work”
Wednesday, 20 February, and Friday, 22 February
10:30 to 12:00 A.M.
Both Paul Revere and his wife Rachel worked hard to keep their large family fed, clothed, and healthy. During this program discover what kinds of chores the Reveres (adults and ...
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Exploring Mehetabel Coit’s Diary, 6 Feb. (Boston 1775)
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On Wednesday, 6 February, at 6:00 P.M., the New England Historic Genealogical Society will host a talk by Michelle Marchetti Coughlin on her new book, One Colonial Woman’s World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit, published by the University of Massachusetts Press:
Mehetabel Coit (1673-1758) is the author of what may be the earliest surviving diary by an American woman. A native ...
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Getting Ready for the 2013 Reenactment Season (Boston 1775)
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The first Hive session of 2013 will take place this Sunday afternoon, 20 January, at Minuteman Vocational Technical High School. It’s all about authentic clothing. The main lecture is “The Process of Putting Together a Great Kit” and breakout sessions cover:
- Newbie Clinic for Women.
- Kit Tune up for Men—Fixing Baggie Breeches & Wobbly Waistcoats.
- Converting ...
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I Can Haz Mezzotints (Boston 1775)
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Its caption is “Love Me, Love My Cat.”
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“For Carriers must sing, whether female or male” (Boston 1775)
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This year’s example comes from the American Telegraphe of Newfield (later Bridgeport), Connecticut, as printed at the end of 1798:
ADDRESS of the Carrier of the American Telegraphe to its PATRONS.
January 1, 1799.
Ye friends of good order, ye ...
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From Fashion to Politics: Hadassah and Jewish American Women in the Post World War II Era (RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY)
An interesting history-related post from RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY:
| . From fashion to politics: Hadassah and Jewish American women in the post World War II era. Academic Studies Press, 2012. 152p index; ISBN9781618111593 pbk, $49.00. Reviewed in 2012dec CHOICE. | ||
| In her history of Hadassah in ... |
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Thanksgiving Memories from John Marston (Boston 1775)
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For the holiday I’ll quote John Marston’s recollection of Thanksgiving in Boston before the Revolution. Marston evidently wrote this letter to Anne Adams about 1830, and it was first published in The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America in 1893. Dear Cousin,
This is Thanksgiving day and we have eaten our plum pudding alone, a circumstance I do not remember having occurred before in the course of my life. All anniversaries bring with them solemn reflections and reminders of former days. I have ...
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Child Workers In The Industrial Revolution