Husband 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

Hemp 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/

Does 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.

#Histodons #EarlyAmerica #Needlework #Textiles

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/

#Brewminate #ReproductiveHistory #EarlyAmerica #USHistory

🚨 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

https://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

My public July Substack post is out today!

"Independence Cake: On food politics in the early United States and a recipe for cake."

https://open.substack.com/pub/historicalfoodways/p/independence-cake?r=1n7r7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#HistFood #FoodHistory #CulinaryHistory #EarlyAmerica
#IndependenceDay #bakestorians

#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)

Today 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

Today in #Connecticut History, February 27: For the Greatest Generation, He Defined “Early America”

Read the Story and Subscribe for Daily Updates
TODAYINCTHISTORY.com

https://todayincthistory.com/2023/02/27/february-27-the-renaissance-man-who-defined-early-america-for-the-greatest-generation/

#ameliaearhart #Americana #barns #bicentennial #connecticutartists #craftsmanship #EarlyAmerica #EricSloane #EricSloaneMuseum&KentFurnace #Kent #meterologfy #painting #SmithsonianAirandSpaceMuseum

The Most Important Job In The World

The most important person in town was the Baker. Men and women in communities who worked everyday to feed their families depended on him. Without bread, people would go hungry, even homeless

By Townsends

#history #video #nutrition #earlyamerica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vFS-hTpLU

For today's #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday, a window in the seed house of John Bartram, the pioneering American botanist (1699-1777) whom Linnaeus called "the greatest natural botanist in the world." The building (in what is now part of Philadelphia) was constructed out of a local stone called Wissahickon schist. Below the window are some of the artistic botanic ornaments that Bartram carved into the stone.

#JohnBartram #Philadelphia #Botanical #Architecture #Ornaments #EarlyAmerica

Call: Disability in the Vast Early Americas, https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/11919311/disability-vast-early-americas

#DisabilityHistory #CFP #Histodons #EarlyAmerica

HT @jackiantonovich

@lizcovart and her team have created another well-produced series. The first episode covers the significance of Native American music traditions, beginning before European colonization. This is the podcast that inspired my collaborative book club. I hope it will inspire you too. https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-343-music-and-song-in-native-north-america/. #EarlyAmerica #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #Podcast #History #EarlyAmericanHistory

Sorry, I'm terrible at this tooting thing...forgot me hashtags! #manuscript #manuscriptstudies #bookhistory #bookhistodon #paleography #mediahistory #EarlyAmerica #litstudies

This is the help you find me post. I'm into #mediahistory #bookhistory #manuscriptstudies #handwriting #EarlyAmerica #nativeamericanliterature #nais #africanamericanliterature #AmericanLiterature #mediastudies #sandwiches and other stuff

Hanging with my buddy John Fitch! Spent the afternoon giving tours of the Steamboat Museum at the local historic site where I volunteer. Craven Hall itself has expanded over the years, but the original house with the hearth we still use for coping demonstrations was built in the late 1700’s. #history #buckscounty #earlyamerica #colonial #museum

New #introduction now that I've moved over to hcommons:
I research, write, & teach about #EarlyAmerica #GenderHistory #FamilyHistory and #CulturalHistory.
I also work with #museums and historic sites, most recently on interpreting slavery.
Looking forward to building community here!