Hi everyone! @millie8012 - Tumblr Blog

-- Introduction --

I'm Millie (or Milka for my Polish moots <3) and for the past two years I have been incredibly interested in politics, and since this year also in US history! It started with Hamilton and for now I watched also 1776, John Adams series, Liberty's Kids and Lincoln movie (I also read several history books). I love doing historical reaserch and irrationally romanticizing the lives of 19th century politicians, so I made this blog to talk about my hyperfixation.

Here's the list of topics I'm especially obsessed about:

Queer history!! 🏳️‍🌈

The virginian dynasty

US commissioners in Ghent in 1814

The great triumvirate

John Quincy Adams and the whole Adams family

Cabinet relationships

Social changes in the US over the years (politics, religion and gender norms)

Literally any cute friendship-or-more between historical people

William Henry Seward.

I'm always excited to talk about any of this 💖

(dividers by @saradika-graphics)

#intro post #finally making and introduction #introduction #us history #amrev #antebellum #acv

ludovicus-phytalmios

You draw JQA quite often so maybe you could draw my second favorite, William H. Seward?

OK.

millie8012

Ahhh it's beautiful, tysm!!

#william h seward

"Henry Clay still keeps in the City, visiting & being visited, greeted everywhere with éclat. I suspect this to be a tour of electioneering & am sorry for it, being convinced that much & deservedly as he is admired, he cannot be elected to the Presidency. Yesterday he visited the Girard College, shaking hands with all the boys - one of the urchins making him a set speech, to which he replied. The day before, he met 6,000 Ladies in the Great Hall of the museum, young & old eager to catch his hand & e'en his lip. No Sovereign could desire greater adulation. Hours were spent by these ardent females, coming & going from the audience chambers & cart loads of bouquets showered on the Statesman. All these doings seem rather out of place, at a time when the country is clothed with sackcloth & the unburied corpse of his old friend & public fellow labourer, John Quincy Adams, is by order of Congress moving to its last resting place. I cannot avoid indulging the thought that Henry Clay would have gained quite as much of the affections of his countrymen had he gone to Washington & been seen in the House of Mourning, rather than the Saloons of rejoicing & this I say without approving the entire political course of the deceased great man. H. Clay has, as a politician, pursued a course more to my liking."

I'm obsessed with the part about JQA, the contrast is insane.

#quinclay #henry clay #john quincy adams #diary of thomas l cope #antebellum #us history

averagefederalistenjoyer

is it the fate of an amrev fan to be seduced by antebellum history?

#yes and there's no turning back #but i'm not complaining

The autobiographies of Weed and Seward are like:

Weed: Life wasn't easy, you know, I had to work hard to support my family when we didn't have money for food...

Seward: And then my dad got ANGRY cause I was buying expensive CLOTHES so I run away to GEORGIA where I became the PRINCIPAL of the new ACADEMY!!

#because of their relationship i used to think they must have come from a similar background #how wrong i was #seweed #thurlow weed #william h seward

✧⋆.˚ his favorite historical figure is Henry Clay ˚ .⋆✧

#henry clay #moodboard #aesthetic #antebellum #us history #history #millie's historical moodboards

Here's a nice Seweed story for Seward's birthday, from his wife's letter to her sister:

"Weed I do like very much notwithstanding he did not look at me more than twice all the time he was here - he is perfectly unassuming and so sincere I wish you could hear or see him talk to Henry - "Well" said he "Seward I stayed till 12 oclock last night with Granger - "of course" said Henry - "Why" said Weed "I never did such a thing before and I can hardly account for it now" "You used to stay with me until 12 very often" said Henry" "O that is another thing, I talk nothing but poloticks to Granger" - He and Henry sit very close together and talk very low"

#seweed #william h seward #thurlow weed #frances miller seward