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22. Disney’s America Park Map
By Maddy Culpepper (@exlibrismaddy) In 1993, The Walt Disney Company announced a new theme park that never would be. Disney’s America was a $650 million, 3,000-acre project in Virginia that would have centered on a singular theme: American history. [1] Its announcement was quickly met with furious debate, leading to congressional hearings, environmental reviews and an…
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18. A Letter From the Reservation
By Heidi Katter The letter pictured above, penned in 1877, comes from the hand of a clerk working for the Indian Agency upon a Native American reservation in the United States. Over five hundred pages of letters survive from either the head agent or his clerk, both of whom the federal government charged to oversee…
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12. A Corned Beef Sandwich in Space
By Lauren Evans (@lauren_evans99) In March 1965, the landmark Voting Rights Act worked its way through Congress in the United States, the Beach Boys topped charts with “Help Me, Rhonda”, and a corned beef sandwich found its way into low earth orbit aboard the Gemini 3 spacecraft which launched from Cape Canaveral on March 23.
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Emilie Cunning – Historian Highlight
Emilie Cunning, @emiliegcunning, interviewed by Cherish Watton Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge. We ask students how they came to research their topic, their favourite archival find, as well as the best (and worst) advice they’ve received as academics in training. History is…
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10. A Portrait of Dr Charles Russell
By Shea Hendry Prior to the American Revolution, Dr Charles Russell of Massachusetts owned a thriving medical practice in Charlestown and a sprawling country estate just south of Concord. Direct evidence of Dr Russell’s political leanings is fragmentary prior to the British Army’s ill-fated march into Lexington on April 19, 1775, though as his obituary…
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