Posts Tagged ‘American History’
The Other First Thanksgiving
Unless you live in the American Southwest, the grade school version of American history* typically leaps from Columbus and 1492 straight to 1620, when the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. There is a vague awareness that the Spanish and the French were “out there” doing something, but the story focuses on the development of the thirteen…
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Road Trip Through History: Colonial Williamsburg
On Tuesday, My Own True Love and I visited Jamestown Settlement. Wednesday, we moved on to Colonial Williamsburg. I considered not even writing about our day in Williamsburg. I’m willing to bet that most of you have a picture of it in your head, even if you haven’t been then. Besides, Two Nerdy History Girls…
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Road Trip Through History: Jamestown Settlement
For reasons too complicated to go into here and now, I‘ve been yearning to walk the deck of a late sixteenth-century sailing ship. No late sixteenth-century vessels were available, so My Own True Love and I headed for the next best thing: the replica ships at Jamestown Settlement, located ten miles away from colonial Williamsburg.…
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