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[jhoca]

yrs for ever

Happy Valentine’s Day 🖤 I’m obsessed with the song Abracadabra and I was inspired by the music video ❤️ I wanted to make a movie poster, where the story is: "when you have a boyfriend and a girlfriend and you want to keep both, but it’s complicated because your girlfriend doesn’t know about your boyfriend, and your boyfriend doesn’t believe he’ll ever be loved like your girlfriend, because it’s the 18th century and he knows you will marry her and where does that leave him?" 💔

The gif is crunchy due to file size limitations. You can view the high quality version, extras, and process on my insta

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[majorjohnandre]

Self-portrait by Major John André, drawn on the eve of his execution

[john-laurens]

The South Carolina Historical Society puts on an annual winter lecture series, and the theme this year is "Untold Stories of the American Revolution." The first lecture of the series will be "Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh" presented by John G. McCurdy on February 11, 2025. This lecture speaks right to my special interests, and I'm sure many of you would be interested in attending the lecture too. You can register for this lecture and other lectures in the series here (both in-person and livestream options available). Other lectures in the series include "The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary Carolina," "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom," and "Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence." It's certainly a great lineup of topics and speakers this year!

Surprisingly, I had never heard of John McCurdy or his works prior to this lecture announcement. It appears that his lecture will be based on his recent book of the same name. I've just started reading the book myself and have been enjoying it so far. It is interesting and refreshing to see a discussion of queer history so specifically framed in the context of the American Revolution. John McCurdy previously talked about this book at the Museum of the American Revolution, and you can watch that presentation here. He has a few other publications, including a book titled Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States. I've picked this one up as well but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I'm certainly excited to have found some new books that discuss sexuality and gender in late 18th century America.

[john-laurens]

The lecture by John McCurdy for the South Carolina Historical Society is now available online

[iafayettes]

Are you back orrr

might drop in every so often because i actually remember my login but anything on this account would mostly be reblogs. there's over 100 drafts on this account but they're mostly half-written posts from 5+ years ago, so a lot of them don't make any sense to me anymore (also i don't know what the general vibe is on here anymore, i'm really out of the loop with anything amrev related lol)

[fluviusy-manualdeactivated]

Picked a random background cuz unfortunately I don’t have one for Congress

Hamilton’s drawings (and further info abt it) were taken and can be found in @iafayettes’s ask

[iafayettes]

Hiya, I know you are on hiatus but like whenever you have the time could ypu share your source for the shitty face drawing by Hamilton? That post absolutely made my day and I sent it to a friend but he refuses to believe that it’s real so now I need to prove it to him haha Thanks!!

hey you sent this ask over 4 years ago and i'm guessing definitely do not care anymore (sorry for logging out for years!) but i just logged in for the first time in forever and saw it so i might as well answer.

i haven't looked at anything hamilton related in years but from a 5 minute quick check [the original post link is here]:

both images are from the New York Artillery Company Pay Book (1776) found in the Alexander Hamilton papers that are accessible on the Library of Congress website [link to the page here]

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Image 2 -

cannot believe I instantly knew where to look after 8 years since making that post and around ~6 years of not looking at anything to do with the American Revolution. not sure whether that's a good or bad thing. hope this would've been of help to you and your friend 4 years ago!

[iafayettes]

My creative prowess only truly comes out when I’m sick and left with nothing to do

[chabouillet-deactivated20250404]

period drama meme | 1/5 male characters | Horatio Hornblower

[pierregasly]

Nikita Mazepin: the Russian Oligarchy’s Infiltration of F1

I suppose it’s my turn to speak on the Nikita to Haas situation. In my years involved with F1 I’ve never been so disgusted by a choice of driver. There have already been numerous posts about his violence, obvious disregard for women and rich-boy mentality. While all these are horrendous, I want to speak on something that enrages most of all. Please reblog. 

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[ceremonial]

Jessica Brown Findlay as Charlotte Wells in Harlots (2017 - 2019)

[revolutionary-pirate]

British and American sailors/privateers running into each other at sea in the late 1700s to early 1800s and trying to figure out which is which because they all talked the same, acted the same, and dressed the same and were thus unable to tell for sure without thorough examination: Well one of us is going to have to change.

[littlewritingrabbit]

[revolutionary-pirate]

Good news, Just found out that Arthur S. Lefkowitz’s George Washington’s Indispensable Men is now available as an ebook online currently for ~$16 (usually ~$26) for anyone who’s been wanting it but hasn’t been able to find an affordable copy since it’s been out of print for like 15 years and cost like >$60 for a physical copy. It’s also finally got a paperback edition out as well I think.

[iafayettes]

‘We were visited by, & very frequently met another Man of Emenence in this Country Col: Hamilton; – once Secretary of the Treasury, & the framer of the Funding System adopted in this Country, author also # or rather Editor of the publication called the Federalist, – Col: Hamilton is by Birth a West-Indian; by Profession a Lawyer; & has retired from publick business to the practice of his Profession. He is lively & animated in conversation, gallant in his manners, & sometimes Brilliant in his Sallies, His political conduct has occasioned created him many Enemies & brought upon him unjustly, much obloquy, He is, however, a great support to the Federal-Constitution.’

-  The journals of Henrietta Liston, 6 May 1796

[sugarbabywenkexing]

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!’

[historicalstories]

[littlewritingrabbit]

“My dear Mamma there is something in this man that is more than mortal.”

— Charles Adams about Baron von Steuben in a letter to Abigail Adams, 8 October 1792 (via thelittlelionofvalleyforge)

[charlesreeza]

Dead Guy - Roman, c. 300 BCE, terra cotta

Part of a tableau depicting a battle between the Greeks and the Amazons.  Photo by Charles Reeza at the Museum of Art and History, Geneva.