Anonymous asked:
I was just looking through your John Vanderlyn tag and I just wondered, why would he paint Theodosia Burr Alston's eye? Like it's a nice eye and all it's just a little odd (and some what creepy, I don't know, I don't really like eyeballs on their own).
Eyes are pretty. I get the question but I am not an all-knowing being. To answer your question we’d have to resurrect Vanderlyn and ask about his obsession with pretty eyes.
Anonymous asked:
wow i haven't visited your blog since 2016 , hope you're doing well.
I am doing great, thank you :D
Anonymous asked:
Hi, can I just say you're a smart and incredible person who deserves the world.
Aweeee thank you <3
Anonymous asked:
could you go in depth on the personal (non-political) relationship of madison and monroe? i’ve been dying to know more just about them as really good friends, setting aside politics.
So I was going to post links to a ton of Madroe stuff but there is too much. I have spoken and done a LOT for this relationship (even came up with the name muhahahha). Anyways, search under my tag Madroe and you’ll find more stuff than you know what to do with.
Anonymous asked:
Hello! Maybe you can suggest a few books about Benjamin Tallmadge? Thanks!
There is not a lot of Benjamin Tallmadge books. It would be rather difficult to go into depth about his whole life as a lot of his life is in obscurity. However, I do have a few suggestions.
Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose. This one I kinda enjoyed actually. I did a review on it here! You get to know a lot about Tallmadge.
Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge by Benjamin Tallmadge. This book is incredible, I dearly loved reading it :)
George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade. I actually did a review on this one here… I didn’t like it too much but it includes Tallmadge sections.
Anonymous asked:
Question, why was Robespierre called The Incorruptible? I've heard many different answers and have no idea which is correct, searched through the rest of your blog and even that gives differing answers.
Robespierre didn’t drink and neither did he smoke. Essentially, he was not known to engage in “vices” of any kind. Even sex.
David Walker was a such a salty icon. This man wrote an entire pamphlet in 1829 calling for slaves to rise up against their oppressors and had the nerve to include a line like this:
“–Here let me ask Mr. Jefferson, (but he is gone to answer at the bar of God, for the deeds done in his body while living,) I therefore ask the whole American people, had I not rather die, or be put to death, than to be a slave to any tyrant, who takes not only my own, but my wife and children’s lives by the inches?”
There really is no greater love story than Jefferson and Adams frolicking in France, having a falling out, rekindling their spark in their final decades of life and then dying on the same day with each other’s names in their mouths.
This election is going to be so close. It’s looking like it’ll finish ~270 for Biden, ~268 for Trump. Pray.
The most frightening thing to me is what Trump is going to do in an effort to stay in office if Biden wins.
Trump is like a toxic ex who just won’t let Wisconsin move on.
Biden has more votes than any other political candidate in US history. Incredible.
Anonymous asked:
How do you believe that Sally Hemings should be portrayed in fiction? (This is an urgent ask)
Read America’s First Daughter. Portray Sally with life, personality and not a prop. Her relationship with Jefferson must be portrayed through the lens of a girl who is young and understands her circumstances. For god sakes do not make her a love sick puppy. It was advantageous for her to an “intimate” relationship with Jefferson.
