New addition to my jacket, on the left sleeve!

Coming this next year - a documentary about one New England town's taverns and drinking culture. It's been a year and a half worth of archival and secondary research, now I'm deep into script writing. Keep an eye out for its release! 🗃️

youtu.be/ogWOqiaLa50

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I'm sorry, you say in this very article that he worked with Epstein to "complete a difficult financial transaction" of nearly $300,000 in 2018. That is not something you approach someone you don't trust about.

Why are you downplaying their connection?

Speaking of CT Militia uniforms: work continues on my reproduction!

Pocket Flaps, version1, have to be removed. Making a second try at them, but the vision is here.

Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details - Fort Ticonderoga The Fifteenth Annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” conference takes place virtually on January 24, 2026. We invite you to join us online for this conference on material culture spanning 1609...

Exciting news everyone! I will be presenting at Fort Ticonderoga's upcoming digital conference "Material Matters: It's In The Details" on January 24th in a talk about the politics of CT's Militia Uniforms 1792-1815. 🗃️ #nutmegsky

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You mean I actually have to WRITE the thing? Have mercy!

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

as someone who is a hater, i accept and welcome the fact that i have haters. what is good for the goose, etc. in fact, i think people in this business should be more open about their hating. if we think our words matter, then we should feel some kind of way about people who do bad work.

Man with prominent brown sideburns wearing a half-moon shaped Chapeau-de-bras, front view. Large red Ostrich feather on man’s left.

Man with prominent brown sideburns wearing a half-moon shaped Chapeau-de-bras, side view. Large red Ostrich feather on man’s left, silver tape, tassels on the front and back, and a black cockade with an eagle button in its center.

New hat had arrived to help me interpret the Connecticut Militia during the War of 1812! A “Chapeau de Bras”.

Jesus H. Christ.

This whole thing is shameful. There is no acceptable use of AI and the environmental destruction it is bringing.

#ScholarSunday Thread 223 Shared on May 4, 2025

Back in Charlottesville for a solemn yet celebratory occasion, but y’all know #ScholarSunday threads carry on, so here’s my 223rd of great writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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"Rebel Yankeys": Anatomy of a Connecticut Militia Company at Saratoga - Journal of the American Revolution Ebenezer Lathrop’s company of militia which marched from Norwich, Connecticut, to Stillwater, New York, in the autumn of 1777 makes an excellent case study to understand Connecticut’s militia forces i...

My article examining a Connecticut Militia company during the Saratoga campaign was published yesterday, check it out! 🗃️ #NutmegSky #CTHistory #ConnecticutHistory #Connecticut #Nutmeg #History #America250 #AWI #AmericanWarofIndependence #RevolutionaryWar

Real Time Revolution March 1st 2025 THE COMING STORM Each Militia company in Connecticut was ordered to train for 12 half days between October 1774 and May 1775. East Franklin’s company (7th Company, 20th Regiment) met at the “usual place of parade” within Pautipaug Society on March 1st, 1775 to conduct one such training. Additionally, as Captain Jacob Hazen had moved out of Pautipaug, the company used this opportunity to elect a new Captain: Ebenezer Lathrop Jr. AMERICA250 CONNECTICUT AFFILIATE Franklin Town Historian: 860-642-1988 franklincthistorian@gmail.com FRANKLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MATT NOVOSAD, FRANKLIN TOWN HISTORIAN

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Yes, I have a number of historic maps to use as the basis. More traditional, but done so clearly (if that makes sense). A lot of 18th and 19th century maps are too busy.

Great question! Overview of the town with historic roads and waterways, with some spots noted as taverns (if possible w/ a line drawing of the building).

Looking for an artist to commission some historical art and maps for a youtube video I’m working on.

If you’re interested, please reach out. This will be paid and credited!

1)At least 540 Swedish born soldiers fell at the Western Front in WW1. This is what I have found so far, it may be more of them. 343 of them fought for the American Expeditionary Forces. The majority of them are buried and commemorated in Belgium and France, but 43 of them are buried back in the US>

Congragulations!🥳

one thing we absolutely do not need to do as a field is to say that people - with history degrees - aren't "historians"

fuck off with that elitist bullshit

Cardboard box with folded red wool and a bag of flat pewter buttons.

Well, that’s the rest of the materials to make my War of 1812 kit!

Part of the meaning behind CT’s uniform was derived from its creation and construction. The style and cut, and the effort required vs. the payoff (tax breaks) are all intertwined.

Yes. I started reenacting earlier time periods this year and have been hand sewing my own clothing for them (late 18th and early 19th centuries). It’s very much a critical part of understanding the period, imo, and in the case of Connecticut’s War of 1812 uniform its critical. (1/?)

‘I’m a mixed Black female historical re-enactor in a sea of men with beards’ Not everyone would want to spend their weekends dressed in a tunic fighting medieval battles, but my love of re-enacting is rooted in keeping history alive

This is a gorgeous piece of writing on reenacting, escapism and keeping history alive www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

A pre-1914 cigarette card showing an Indian Army mountain gunner standing by a mule which is carrying part of a gun.

I've recently been researching the Indian Army's mountain batteries in the First World War. These batteries saw action at Gallipoli, in East Africa, and in the Middle East. Their experiences are an absolutely fascinating story of some very tough men and their equally tough mules!

Continuing my digital paint studies. This one is from the background in a #matania illustration.
#ww1 #britishcavalry #horsepainting #history #art #fortuninomatania #digitalart #militaryhistory

In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info.

ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.

Connecticut did pretty well for itself, the Pettipaug Raid notwithstanding ;)

Man standing in front of a mirror wearing dark blue high waisted pantaloon trousers with a red welt in the seam, a white linen shirt, white woolen vest without skirts and with a high standing collar, and a black top hat with a black and red feather on the left.

Man standing in front of a mirror wearing dark blue high waisted pantaloon trousers with a red welt in the seam, a white linen shirt, white woolen vest without skirts and with a high standing collar.

That’s the vest done! Next up is the coatee. I was also too lazy to find my sleeve buttons for this fit test, so excuse the open cuffs.

One step closer to having a complete Connecticut Militia Uniform for the War of 1812.

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A reminder for all Spanish speakers, we have a new Spanish history channel on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@tiemposhist...

Left hand holding up a piece of white woolen broadcloth for a waistcoat with three buttonholes cut into it. Two of the buttonholes are finished with white silk twist and have bar tacks on each end.

Incredible to see how I’ve improved in sewing, my buttonholes on this waistcoat are looking excellent!