Archive - Historical Notions

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It's time, or maybe past time

Dec 21, 2023 •

July 2021

Crime and the Press in the 19th Century

Jul 29, 2021 •

June 2021

Historical Notions: Operation Wigwam

Or, That Time When Risking Total Obliteration Was Supposed to Keep us Safe

Jun 25, 2021 •

May 2021

Surprises from the United Workers of Norwich (CT)

May 29, 2021 •

The Ashton Cookbook

This is April's newsletter (really).

May 8, 2021 •

March 2021

The Library of Benjamin Douglas, Part 1

A while back, I ran across the item-level inventory of Benjamin Douglas’s library in his 1775 probate record. It included no fewer than 60 titles, many…

Mar 21, 2021 •

February 2021

Tragedy and Memory: The Wreck of the General Arnold

Historical Notions #3

Feb 14, 2021 •

November 2020

Anna Rompf Lapp’s Cookbook

An item from my collection.

Nov 16, 2020 •

October 2020

Historical Notions #2: A Historical Exhortation to Vote

Greetings, patient subscribers! No doubt many of you have forgotten you subscribed at all. A few may be puzzled to receive this from Substack; you…

Oct 17, 2020 •

June 2019

Historical Notions #1 (again!)

Being some ramblings about a Civil War letter and a World War II photograph

Jun 2, 2019 •

May 2019

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May 18, 2019 •

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