Rembrandt Peale (based on a portrait by Charles Willson Peale), Martha Washington, ca. 1856. American flag in 1776. Images: Wikipedia (cat: Von.grzanka).
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February 28, 2023
Top: Alexander Hamilton as a soldier (later painting), Catharine Livingston; below, William Livingston, Sarah Livingston Jay. Images: Wikipedia
This series of posts is available as a video playlist at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9eyRnt5W114bs8_CJNvlcLfIB4NW_YTB. Last week we looked at primary sources to see whether an affair between Alexander Hamilton and Angelica Schuyler…
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February 21, 2023
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler Church. Images: Wikipedia
This series of posts is available as a video playlist at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9eyRnt5W114bs8_CJNvlcLfIB4NW_YTB. The rumor Here’s the background, for those of you who are not up on the sex lives of…
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February 14, 2023
Avengers: Endgame. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep." Psy, "Gangnam Style." Hamilton: An American Musical. All: Wikipedia.
Twelfth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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August 8, 2022
US soldiers in Afghanistan, 2011. Photo: Wikipedia.
Tea Party sign, 2012. Photo: Quinn Dombrowski_2 / Wikipedia.
Steve Jobs announces the release of the iPhone, 2007. Photo: Blake Patterson / Wikipedia
Eleventh of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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August 2, 2022
Jackson, Thriller, 1982. Madonna, Like a Virgin, 1984. Hammer, Feel My Power, 1986. Schönberg & Boublil, Les Miserables, 1987.
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July 19, 2022
Newsweek’s cover for 1/26/1970, the issue devoted to “The Ravaged Environment.” Nixon just after resigning as president, 1974. Photo: Wikipedia. Sign at a gas station during the oil crisis, 1974. Photo: Wikipedia. Iranian students climb walls of US Embassy in Tehran at start of hostage crisis, 1979. Photo: TheMemoryHole.org
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July 12, 2022
Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961. The Graduate, 1967. Nimoy as Mr. Spock on Star Trek, ca. 1966-1969. Beatles, With the Beatles, 1963. Jackson Five, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, 1969.
Seventh of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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July 5, 2022
Nuclear warhead stockpiles of the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, 1945-2014. Fastfission / Wikipedia. Integration at the Barnard School, 1955. Photo: Wikipedia. CDC's polio vaccine poster. Wikipedia
Sixth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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June 28, 2022
Firestorm after bombing of Hiroshima, 1945. J. Howard Miller, "We Can Do It!", 1943 (created for Westinghouse Electric to boost morale of female workers). TV from ca. 1946-1947. Images: Wikipedia
Fifth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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