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Showing posts with label Colonial Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colonial Times. Show all posts
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Working Women All Through History: Blacksmiths, Silversmiths, Nail Makers

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If you thought that "Kate the Blacksmith" was an anachronism in A Knight's Tale... she wasn't. (Well except for her diale...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Open Letter to the Cast of Hamilton

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A theater company is not responsible for what the audience does, but the persons on stage are responsible for how they react to audiences. T...
Monday, July 4, 2016

The First Amendment and Hand Cranked Printing Presses

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On this Independence Day, a little history lesson. "The Press" did not mean "journalists" when our nation was founde...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Letterpress Printing Projects: A Tiny Almanac

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 AAPA Member Dave Tribby tackles a fine project each year: a bound volume that he titles " Ink Cahoots ", made up of diverse s...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

First Turkey Days! Thanksgiving Feasts in America 1540 - 1640 (or "The Real History of Thanksgiving")

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A couple of years ago, I called Thanksgiving " The Immigrants Holiday " because nearly every shipload of Europeans who came to ...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

TODAY 8/6 The Response Call to Prayer For A Nation In Crisis

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  UPDATE Aug 11, 2013 :  A footnote: Yes, it did indeed rain. A good source of the detail is from TexasStormChasers.com, which records, less...
Monday, July 4, 2011

The List of Reasons: The Complete Declaration of Independence

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Most people over 40 are familiar with the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and it is indeed as inspiring today as it was when th...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

The Virginia Declaration of Rights: Precursor to the Bill of Rights

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 The founding documents of our nation did not appear out of nowhere. They, and our form of government, were based on existing declarations a...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Take A Trip Outside Your Door: The Beauty of Local Day Trips

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Pat Austin @ And So It Goes In Shreveport has developed a whole series of posts of one-day jaunts to nearby small towns: the "Take A Tr...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Mrs Palin Goes To Washington

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Heh. Gotta love the Drudge Report 's headlines: " PALIN ROLLIN' ... " Media confused ..." Texas For Sarah Palin...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

God Bless The Weekend: Saving our Endangered Days Off Together

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Those who wish to pretend that Christianity is not the root of all that is best in Western culture, or that America was not founded and f...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Part Two: 18th Century Business Women in Publishing: Limited Only By 20th Century Interpretation

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We like to recognize "firsts", but so often that's the least interesting part of the story. Mary Katherine Goddard's care...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

18th Century Equal Opportunity & Success: Some Women Printers in Colonial America

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In honor of Benjamin Franklin's birthday (coming up on the 17th), here's a bit of history about some of the people who moved in his ...