Getting Started in Living History - Beginning Q&A
This is the first, in what we hope will be a continuing series of articles on the practice of Living History. From time to time, we will...
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Here is where we publish articles about the social, political and military history of American society during the Colonial and Early Republic Eras. Where we feel it is needed, we also examine the origins of the subject. From time to time, we will also publish articles regarding Living History interpretative skills.
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Dec 30, 20219 min read
Wine in Early-19th Century America
New Year’s Eve is upon us. Although it is a time usually associated with champagne and other sparkling wines, we thought we would take...
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Dec 17, 202111 min read
Christmas Carols in the Early 19th Century
Due to our video-centered culture today, almost any adult, and many children, are familiar with the scene from Charles Dickens’ “A...
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Dec 3, 202121 min read
Personal Honor and Dueling in the Early United States
Introduction Early on the morning of July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton boarded a boat with his Second and a physician and set sail from...
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Nov 19, 202113 min read
An Evening Out: Etiquette for the Street, House Parties, and the Dining Room
As we pointed out when we began this series, Regency/Federal Era period etiquette is an extremely broad subject, and we cannot cover...
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Nov 5, 20219 min read
The Formal Visit and the Calling Card
In our last posting, we talked about the Etiquette of the Ballroom in late-18th and early-19th century America and how it was both...
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Oct 21, 202120 min read
Federal Era Ballroom Etiquette – It isn’t all that clear cut.
Our friends at the Regency Society of Virginia are having their annual Trafalgar Victory Ball this coming Saturday October 23, 2021, and...
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Oct 8, 202121 min read
The War of 1812 – Part 8 - Diplomacy and the Treaty of Ghent
Initial Attempts at Diplomacy Throughout the last five months, we have posted a series of articles looking at some of the causes leading...
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Sep 24, 202114 min read
The War of 1812 – Part 7 - Naval War in the Pacific
In Part 6, of this series we examined the Naval Campaign in the Atlantic, focusing on the US Navy’s smaller frigates, sloops, and brigs. ...
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Sep 10, 202122 min read
The War of 1812 – Part 6 - Naval War in the Atlantic
In Part 1, of this series we mentioned that, despite years of provocations and diplomatic disputes, neither the US nor Great Britain were...
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Aug 27, 202127 min read
The War of 1812 – Part 5 - The Attack on New Orleans
In Part 1 of our series on the War of 1812, we looked at operations along the Canadian border. In Part 2 and Part 3, we looked at...
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Aug 13, 202118 min read
The War of 1812 - Part 4 - The Southern Theater
In Part 1 of this series on the War of 1812, we looked at operations along the Canadian border. In Part 2, we looked at operations in the...
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Jul 30, 202133 min read
The War of 1812 Part 3 - The Chesapeake Campaign, 1814
In our last post we examined the action in the Chesapeake Bay theater of operations during 1813. As we learned, the British purpose for...
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Jul 16, 202115 min read
The War of 1812 - Part 2: The Chesapeake Campaign - 1813
In our last post we examined the action in the War of 1812 along the US/Canadian border and in the Old Northwest Territories. As we saw,...
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Jul 2, 202128 min read
The War of 1812 - Part 1; The Northern and Western Theater
As we have discussed in previous posts, the real origins of the War of 1812 were in the conflict that raged in Europe for two decades...
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Jun 18, 202114 min read
Provocation Toward War: The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
In recent posts, we have talked about both Indian trouble in the Northwest Territories and the Embargo Act, and its successors as some of...
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Jun 4, 202119 min read
Jefferson’s Embargo Act and the Depression of 1807-11
Intro For the past couple of posts, we have been discussing issues met by our nation as we tried to expand westward over the Appalachian...
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May 21, 202119 min read
Tecumseh and His Indian Confederacy
In our last post we talked about the Northwest Territory, the American push to settle it, and the Northwest Indian War. However, the...
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May 7, 202115 min read
The Old Northwest Territory: America’s First Great Westward Expansion
If I were to speak of the Northwest Territories today, most people would assume I was either talking about the Canadian province or the...
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Apr 23, 202110 min read
Identity for a New Nation: Federal Era Architecture and Design
When the United States first broke away from Britain and established its independence as a nation we had no “national identity.” National...
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Apr 9, 202117 min read
"To Remake Society in God's Name": The Second Great Awakening and Its Effect on America
Today, one of the great “wedge issues” in the culture wars is religion and its place in American society and our government. On one...
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Mar 26, 202119 min read
Building the Republic: National Banking and Finance
Today, most of us give little thought to banks. If we want to deposit our paycheck, get cash, a mortgage loan, a consumer loan, or...
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Mar 13, 202113 min read
Lotteries as Public Finance
These days, when we want to fund building a public project such as roads, bridges, schools, etc., governments usually to look to issuing...
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Feb 27, 202120 min read
Dolley Madison: The Nation's "First" Lady.
Monday marks the beginning of Women’s History Month 2021. The focus of this blog is always history, and so, we do not usually theme our...
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