sarah, nyc.
"...I feel towards him as I do toward pâté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day."
…began in New York.
After the Glorious Revolution, the Crown worked out a compromise of colonial autonomy and imperial power with its American colonies. Most colonies accepted royal governors in their councils but colonists also looked to London for the recall of these governors.
Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury) was governor of New York from 1702 to 1710. To put it simply, Cornbury had a lot of political enemies and these enemies insisted that he partook in a certain hobby:
“Lord Cornbury has and dos still make use of an unfortunate Custom of dressing himself in Women’s Cloaths and of exposing himself in that Garb upon the Ramparts to the view of the public; in that dress he draws a World of Spectators upon him and consequently as many Censures, especially for exposing himself in such a manner [on] all the great Holy days and even in an hour or two after going to the Communion.”
There’s also a portrait that was (most likely) falsely purported to be him (though it could be Queen Anne, since she was his cousin and looked quite a bit like him):
(photo source: New York Historical Society).
These cross-dressing accusations caused Cornbury to be displaced in 1709.
fun fact: Harvard College was founded (in 1636) as a training school for Puritan ministers.
Yale was also formed to train ministers.
ah, yes! and Wikipedia says Yale was founded in 1701. and apparently Dartmouth College (1769) is also Puritan, but wasn’t founded to train ministers—it was founded to train Native Americans as missionaries.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
- AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
- BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
- BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
- AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
- AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
- BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
- AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
I seldom browse era tags on tumblr because I get a very great desire to reblog every mislabeled post and scream at the OP. But that would be overly aggressive, and if I’m going to be aggressive, I’d rather be passive-aggressive. Anyway, hopefully if I tag this with every conceivable era people might see it and learn something. Cause knowledge is power! Or, being a dumbass is bad. Whichever you prefer.
1.) Medieval / Middle Ages - social/political/economic/cultural era; generally between the 5th and 15th centuries
2.) Renaissance - social/political/economic/cultural era; generally between the 14th and the 16th centuries
3.) Tudor - of or relating to the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I of England, 1485-1558
4.) Elizabethan - of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I of England, 1558-1603
5.) Jacobean - of or relating to the reign of James I/VI of England and Scotland, 1603-25
6.) Stuart - of or relating to the reigns of the Stuart monarchs in England/United Kingdom, 1603-1714
7.) Baroque - social/cultural era; ca. 1600-1700
8.) Colonial - of or relating to the period of European rule over the American colonies, 1607-1776
9.) Caroline - of or relating to the reign of Charles of I of England and Scotland, 1625-42
10.) Louis Quatorze - of or relating to the reign of Louis XIV of France, 1643-1715
11.) Commonwealth (Interregnum) - of or relating to the rule of Oliver Cromwell over the Commonwealth of England, 1649-60
12.) Restoration - of or relating to the restoration of the British monarchy and the reign of Charles II, 1660-85
13.) Georgian - of or relating to the reigns of George I, George II, George III, George IV, and William IV of the United Kingdom, 1714-1837
14.) Rococo - social/cultural era; ca. 1715-60
15.) Louis Quinze - of or relating to the reign of Louis XV of France, 1715-74
16.) Louis Seize - of or relating to the reign of Louis XVI of France, 1770-92
17.) Federal - American cultural era; ca. 1780-1830
18.) Antebellum - American political/social/economic/cultural era; 1789-1861
19.) Directoire - of or relating to the Directoire in France, 1795-99
20.) Consulate - of or relating to the Consulate in France, 1800-04
21.) Empire - of or relating to the First French Empire, 1804-15
22.) Regency - of or relating to the British Regency, 1811-20
23.) Biedermeier - Central European social/cultural era; 1815-48
24.) Romantic - cultural era; ca. 1825-40
25.) Victorian - of or relating to the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom, 1837-1901
26.) Second Empire - of or relating to the Second French Empire, 1852-70
27.) Civil War - of or relating to the American Civil War, 1861-65
28.) Gilded Age - American social/political/economic/cultural era; ca. 1868-1900
29.) Belle Epoque - European social/cultural era; late 19th century to 1914
30.) Edwardian - of or relating to the reign of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1901-10, although it is usually extended to 1914
Constructing the Star Theatre, New York City, 1901
Note: The original film reel in fact showed the building being destroyed, but audiences at the time preferred to see it played backwards, and so do I.
The only known video footage of Anne Frank
President Ulysses S. Grant Declared Christmas a Legal Holiday in 1870
Christmas in the American Civil War (1861–1865) was celebrated in both the United States and the Confederate States although the day did not become an official holiday until five years after the war ended. The war continued to rage on Christmas and skirmishes occurred throughout the countryside. Celebrations for both troops and civilians saw significant alteration. In 1870, Christmas became an official Federal holiday when President Ulysses S. Grant made it so in an attempt to unite north and south.
