From Julia Gaffield in the Washington Post (hat tip: Dan Franke):
Five Myths About the Haitian Revolution
This month marks the 230th anniversary of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. In August 1791, enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue […] Continue Reading…
The City of St. Louis, founded on the west bank of the Mississippi River just south of its confluence with the […] Continue Reading…
A day out yesterday in Illinois and Missouri allowed us to see some interesting things, including some historic flags. As is my habit, I carefully collected them for display here!
At the Fort de Chartres museum, […] Continue Reading…
Sad news: the great Susan Reynolds has died, per Pauline Stafford on Twitter. Susan was the author of Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300 (1984), which I found very useful for my work. She was most famous for […] Continue Reading…
The former director of Reinhardt’s Funk Heritage Center, Joe Kitchens, has penned an interesting post on Longleaf Journal:
Most of us have a tendency to “conflate” what we learn about specific periods of history so that we often fix in our […] Continue Reading…
Another nineteenth century presidential home and museum is the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Grantwood Village, St. Louis, Missouri. This one is run competently by the National Parks Service. (Grant’s papers are at Mississippi State University in […] Continue Reading…
A recent trip through Tennessee allowed us to see two presidential museums: Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage in Nashville and the President James K. Polk Home and Museum in Columbia.* Both are quite enlightening in their way.
The Hermitage, first acquired by […] Continue Reading…
The book referenced below, Hugh Williams, ed., National Songs and Poetical Pieces Dedicated to the Queen and her Countrywomen (London: Hetherington, 1839), illustrates just how informative and fun primary sources can be. For instance, I was completely unaware of […] Continue Reading…
I mentioned below that there was always a strain of anti-British, republican sentiment among the denizens of British North America. The most glaring expression of this occurred in 1837-38, when simultaneous rebellions broke out in Upper and Lower Canada, […] Continue Reading…
A happy Dominion Day to my fellow Canadians. To celebrate, I post something I found as the result of an image search.
Rubylane.com.It’s a nine-quartered Canadian coat of arms from a Wedgewood plate manufactured c. 1910. […] Continue Reading…