⬆️ Check this out tomorrow. Lozier writes perceptive and nuanced histories of French-Indigenous relations. This will doubtlessly be a great talk. #histodons#VastEarlyAmerica@histodons
TL/dr? Students + direct engagement w primary sources = better grasp of history as subject and method.
Hello friends, as you're starting to turn toward fall course assignments and public events, I want to encourage you to think about using your library special collections. Amazing to me how huge, hugh, huge the impact on students of engaging with early materials can be-- and for all my colleagues who build this in, so many more could / should do so! 1/ #history#histodons#VastEarlyAmerica
#OTD 1776 - General Benedict Arnold desperately requests anchors, paint and tarbrushes, spyglasses, speaking trumpets, fishnets, grape, canister & double-headed and chain shot, for America's first navy, which he is building on Lake Champlain, at Skenesboro (now Whitehall), which was then remote wilderness.
This profile from @librarycongress notes that he was seen as a failure in his lifetime, and that, although he is today venerated and best known as the philosopher of nature and the simple life, as well as a civil libertarian, he was also much more.
Did you know of his interest and expertise in #maps and #cartography?
The refurbished Concord Museum uses a handful of objects to portray the town's history as "at the center of revolution" in culture & the arts as well as politics.
Lesser-known fact about Henry David Thoreau (b. 12 July 1817):
He revolutionized his father's pencil factory--and the then-inferior American pencil industry--before moving on to the literary and political activity for which we remember him today
"Wampanoag warriors killed seven colonists in Swansea in retaliation for a series of injustices....Over the next year...the Abenaki, Narragansett, Nipmuc, & Wampanoag tribes attacked more than half of all the settlements in New England...By late 1676, English settlers had effectively cleared southern New England of its native inhabitants"