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Digital #Ham4Ham 3/23/16 –The West Wing Cabinet Battle

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If we open a letter written by a young woman and read, “Often too he shared my pillow - or I his, and how sweet to sleep with him, to hold his beloved form in my embrace, to have his arms about my neck, to imprint upon his face sweet kisses,” we can reasonably assume that she and the man in question shared a sexual relationship. There is no justifiable grounds for changing that assumption when we learn that the words were actually written by Albert Dodd, a Yale undergraduate in the 1830s, describing his relationship with a fellow student, Anthony Hall. There is no valid reason to assert that passionate language in a letter between a man and a woman implies a sexual attraction, while exactly the same language exchanged between two men is “just the way male friends wrote about one another back then.” Yet this type of willful disbelief in the prevalence of historical homosexuality, and refusal to accept passionate male-male discourse as anything other than a literary convention, is all too common.

William Benemann, Male-Male Intimacy in Early America (via publius-esquire)

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james madison’s reaction to the reynolds pamphlet was basically just ‘why did he do this’

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President Obama not wanting to let go of Lin’s hand

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I wish George Washington could visit our time and punch Donald Trump in the face

My 10 year-old sister (via history-jokes)

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National Portrait Gallery, London

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thomas jefferson @ alexander hamilton: smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty

thomas jefferson: *is wearing fuschia knee-length jacket with frills*

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The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him.

Another immigrant coming up from the bottom…

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Washington & our favorite fighting frenchman

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Hamilton cast coloring together [x]

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Alza la bandera La bandera Puertorriqueña!

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this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

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Read this - oh my goodness, this girl was wonderful.

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Where can I read this in full?

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It’s from Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories, and that particular section is by Martha Carey Thomas who grew up to be a suffragist, linguist and renowned educator, as well as a badass lesbian.