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“Soften This Business”: New York and the Loyalist Legacy at Waterloo – The History Doctor
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June 18, 2015. August 28, 2015. 8220;Soften This Business”: New York and the Loyalist Legacy at Waterloo. That the loyalists of the American Revolution helped shape the British Empire after independence is no secret. In particular, Maya Jasanoff highlighted the importance of the “loyalist diaspora” to the development of Canada and other parts of the British world in her terrific. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. But what of his cousin? Barclay survived the battle and rose ...
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November 2013 – The History Doctor
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November 27, 2013. 8220;He forfeited all claim to the hospitality of Tuckahoe”: The Limits of Hospitality in Revolutionary Virginia. 8221; The officer with some warmth replied, “Just as your tobacco was, by a superior force.” I need not tell you the distress and confusion of the young lady, as well as of the officer himself, who immediately became conscious of what he had said, and for his ill-timed violence, he forfeited all claim to the hospitality of Tuckahoe. November 1, 2013. November 1, 2013. WHEN ...
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Beyond Obama’s Call for “An Honest Accounting”: A Warning from John F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. of the Danger of Historical Myths – The History Doctor
https://taylorstoermer.com/2015/06/29/beyond-obamas-call-for-an-honest-accounting-a-warning-from-john-f-kennedy-and-arthur-schlesinger-jr-of-the-danger-of-historical-myths
June 29, 2015. June 29, 2015. Beyond Obama’s Call for “An Honest Accounting”: A Warning from John F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. of the Danger of Historical Myths. America’s historical mythology is much in the news these days, causing even President Obama to call for “an honest accounting of America’s history”. A member of the White House staff, it humorously played with the rivalry between Yale and Harvard before launching into the much more serious business of charging Yale graduates that day t...
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What Colonial Williamsburg’s Charity Navigator Downgrade to 2 Stars Does–and Doesn’t–Mean – The History Doctor
https://taylorstoermer.com/2015/08/10/what-colonial-williamsburgs-charity-navigator-downgrade-to-2-stars-does-and-doesnt-mean
August 10, 2015. August 26, 2015. What Colonial Williamsburg’s Charity Navigator Downgrade to 2 Stars Does–and Doesn’t–Mean. Non-profit evaluators such as Charity Navigator. Of the business of public history — they read the numbers so that you don’t have to. This comes to mind because Charity Navigator just downgraded Colonial Williamsburg (CW). But what does all that mean for CW today and, more importantly, for the health of heritage tourism and the livelihoods that depend on them? Master narrative, att...
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Where There’s a Will, There’s No Way?: Saving Sweet Briar – The History Doctor
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March 11, 2015. March 11, 2015. Where There’s a Will, There’s No Way? Has been recently likened to a setting from an American Girl. That’s why, as someone quite familiar with the college, I was especially distressed to learn that it is to be shuttered like an English country house at the end of a shooting season when the current term comes to a close due to “ insurmountable financial challenges. What will the soon-to-be unemployed faculty and staff do in an already crowded academic job market. And turned...
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Board to Death: A Mild Reflection on the Quiet Threat to Cultural Institutions – The History Doctor
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May 20, 2015. May 21, 2015. Board to Death: A Mild Reflection on the Quiet Threat to Cultural Institutions. I’m not writing of matters of minor import. Take a look at what’s happening right now at Sweet Briar College. Was sentenced to death, seemingly without appeal. Of course, such a myopic and dramatic step reveals one of the more pernicious characteristics of problem boards: The inherent belief, especially amongst long-term board members, that l’institution c’est moi. To make a pledge.). The issue is ...
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Words, Words, Words: A Capital Tool to Learn and Use Colonial American Language – The History Doctor
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June 15, 2015. December 29, 2015. Words, Words, Words: A Capital Tool to Learn and Use Colonial American Language. When I usually take to this blog, at least of late, it’s either to share an interesting historical tidbit or cheerlead for the Save Sweet Briar Campaign. Words They Lived By: Colonial New England Speech, Then and Now. An 18th-century inn that is the only place I know that tells the story of the loyalists in the American Revolution and tells it well. In the 18th century? That could provide in...
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February 2015 – The History Doctor
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February 13, 2015. April 14, 2015. Musings on the Big “So What? 8221; of Public History. The other night, a rather good friend who covers history and related issues for a local newspaper and I were discussing the many recent changes at Colonial Williamsburg (CW), the place with which I am most closely associated, comparing and contrasting the challenges that its new leadership faces with historic sites in the Hudson Valley and elsewhere. You might respond to that with a rather trenchant, “Huh? There are ...
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“Now or Never Our Deliverance Must Come”: George Washington and the Power of Contingency – The History Doctor
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April 9, 2015. April 9, 2015. 8220;Now or Never Our Deliverance Must Come”: George Washington and the Power of Contingency. Exploring such counterfactuals can be enormously useful–and intellectually challenging–as an educational tool. For example, what if we rewound our notional historical tape back to this date in 1781? What would we find? Were you in New York, at the New Windsor Cantonment. Posted in American Revolution. What’s Not in a Name in Colonial Virginia. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Making a Pu...
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