Front PageHusband and wife reenact daily life in the 1800s and people are riveted
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/couple-reenacts-life-from-1800s
BrewminateHemp shaped the early American economy — cloth, rope, sails, and the labor that built a maritime nation. 🌿
Its legacy is woven into the country’s earliest identity.
#HistoryMatters #EarlyAmerica #MaritimeHistory #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/hemp-in-early-america-labor-textiles-maritime-power-and-national-identity/
Trevor BurrowsDoes anyone know of good digital collections for historical research re: textiles in early America (say, 1700s to early 1800s)?
I have a student doing a project based on needlework from this period. She has found a few print volumes with good images of needlework from the time, but I am wondering if there is a digital archive or collection out there that might be of use.
In early America, childbirth was more than biological — it was political.
Explore how pregnancy and nationhood intertwined between 1700 and 1830, shaping the moral and civic vision of the new Republic.
https://brewminate.com/conceiving-the-republic-pregnancy-and-childbirth-in-early-america-1700-1830/
FID Anglo-American Culture🚨 New book alert! 🚨
"Under the Skin" by Mairin Odle presents customs of #tattooing & #scalping as key forms of cross-cultural #bodymodification between #NativeAmericans & colonisers in 17 + 18 c North America
#AmericanStudies #IndigenousStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AmericanHistory #EarlyAmerica
MidsouthMouth.OctaviaKeatshttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sArGzxSpyeM
Out here updating biased historical narratives for over a decade, please give proper respect to this historical reenactor, Cheyney McKnight, Not Your Momma's History, for her well-researched work as an interpreter over a decade. I found her work on YouTube.
#CheyneyMcKnight
#NotYourMothersHistory
#history
#reenactment #HistoricalInterpretation
#EarlyAmerica
#DomesticLabor #Abuse #Bias #Education #Racism #WorkingClass #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon #SlaveryMadePlain
Cheyney McKnight Rewrites Black History in America
Juneisy HawkinsMy public July Substack post is out today!
"Independence Cake: On food politics in the early United States and a recipe for cake."
#HistFood #FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #EarlyAmerica
#IndependenceDay #bakestorians
Greg Miller#AmWriting #historicalfiction about the #americanrevolution and did quite a bit of #research (ahem!) which resulted in this extensive #bibliography of #sources that may be of interested to anyone interested in #earlyamerica https://othernetwork.com/a-bibliography-of-sources-on-the-american-revolution/?preview_id=2241&preview_nonce=c4dc986da5&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=2356
(the Illustration from the Pentateuch of Printing, c. 1891 https://archive.org/details/pentateuchprint00blad/page/n33/mode/2up)
(the Illustration from the Pentateuch of Printing, c. 1891 https://archive.org/details/pentateuchprint00blad/page/n33/mode/2up)
mem_somervilleToday I visited the Cogswell's Grant home of some collector's of early American art and other goods. House is FULL of stuff. But I was especially interested in a very specific item, described in the next toot.
Other fun painting and objects first.
https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/cogswells-grant/ #TextileHistory #EarlyAmerica
CT History NewsToday in #Connecticut History, February 27: For the Greatest Generation, He Defined “Early America”
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TODAYINCTHISTORY.com
#ameliaearhart #Americana #barns #bicentennial #connecticutartists #craftsmanship #EarlyAmerica #EricSloane #EricSloaneMuseum&KentFurnace #Kent #meterologfy #painting #SmithsonianAirandSpaceMuseum
