Grace Henry
@gracehenryhist.bsky.social
📚 Undergrad historian-in-training
📜 Early America and A.Hamilton aficionado
🪶 Historical Fiction writer @gracehosborn.bsky.social
👩🏻🦯 Visually impaired
📜 Early America and A.Hamilton aficionado
🪶 Historical Fiction writer @gracehosborn.bsky.social
👩🏻🦯 Visually impaired
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Grace Henry
@gracehenryhist.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Hi, everyone! 👋
Thought I’d introduce myself! I’m Grace, a History major who intends to specialize in the American Revolution and Early Republic. I have a fascination with Alexander Hamilton and love chocolate and cats!
Thought I’d introduce myself! I’m Grace, a History major who intends to specialize in the American Revolution and Early Republic. I have a fascination with Alexander Hamilton and love chocolate and cats!
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On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise."
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise."
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
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Did you know the chocolate chip cookie that we know and love is less than 100 years old? The Library of Congress has a copy of the book in which the very first chocolate chip cookie recipe appeared, "Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes." blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...
December 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Did you know the chocolate chip cookie that we know and love is less than 100 years old? The Library of Congress has a copy of the book in which the very first chocolate chip cookie recipe appeared, "Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes." blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...
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I like Heather Cox Richardson. She’s a nice lady IRL who has clearly read a lot of books.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I like Heather Cox Richardson. She’s a nice lady IRL who has clearly read a lot of books.
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YES INDEED
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
YES INDEED
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Join us (virtually) for our next Friends of Mount Vernon Book Club event on December 10th!! We'll be reading about myths and legends during the founding era, separating fact from fiction. Message me for how to join our group!
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Join us (virtually) for our next Friends of Mount Vernon Book Club event on December 10th!! We'll be reading about myths and legends during the founding era, separating fact from fiction. Message me for how to join our group!
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This digital image of Charles Blaskowitz's early 1777 map of New York Island doesn't do it justice -- it is taller than I am -- but it is a unique perspective on the British invasion. It narrates the British campaign. Zoom in for delicious details. #HATM
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
A plan of New York Island, and part of Long Island, with the circumjacent country, as far as Dobbs's Ferry to the north, and White Plains to the east, including the rivers, islands, roads, &ca - Ameri...
American Revolutionary Geographies Online is a portal containing thousands of maps from dozens of institutions that bring to life the history and geography of the American Revolutionary War era.
www.argomaps.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This digital image of Charles Blaskowitz's early 1777 map of New York Island doesn't do it justice -- it is taller than I am -- but it is a unique perspective on the British invasion. It narrates the British campaign. Zoom in for delicious details. #HATM
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
www.argomaps.org/maps/commonw...
I’m late (per usual) but I just have to say that Yale’s America at 250 lecture course is a wonderful listen. @jbf1755.bsky.social’s lectures were a great way for this aspiring historian to pass the time quality checking some 1,000 book image scans for her uni’s Preservation Department today.
Enjoy:
Enjoy:
America at 250: A History - YouTube
This one-time-only course examines U.S. history from 1776 to the present, in advance of the nation's semiquincentennial (or 250th birthday) in 2026. Taught j...
youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I’m late (per usual) but I just have to say that Yale’s America at 250 lecture course is a wonderful listen. @jbf1755.bsky.social’s lectures were a great way for this aspiring historian to pass the time quality checking some 1,000 book image scans for her uni’s Preservation Department today.
Enjoy:
Enjoy:
Today brought some joy: fall weather!!! So happy I got to pull these boots out from the back of my closet!
Unfortunately, this will only last for a day (oh, Texas…) but I long to live somewhere with all four seasons. Crossing my fingers for my History PhD applications next fall, but we’ll see….
Unfortunately, this will only last for a day (oh, Texas…) but I long to live somewhere with all four seasons. Crossing my fingers for my History PhD applications next fall, but we’ll see….
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Today brought some joy: fall weather!!! So happy I got to pull these boots out from the back of my closet!
Unfortunately, this will only last for a day (oh, Texas…) but I long to live somewhere with all four seasons. Crossing my fingers for my History PhD applications next fall, but we’ll see….
Unfortunately, this will only last for a day (oh, Texas…) but I long to live somewhere with all four seasons. Crossing my fingers for my History PhD applications next fall, but we’ll see….
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Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
So happy to wake up and see that millions of Americans chose to uphold democracy and the Constitution yesterday in exercising their rights.
Definitely gives me some hope on this humid Wednesday.
Definitely gives me some hope on this humid Wednesday.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So happy to wake up and see that millions of Americans chose to uphold democracy and the Constitution yesterday in exercising their rights.
Definitely gives me some hope on this humid Wednesday.
Definitely gives me some hope on this humid Wednesday.
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That’s not just a White House demolition. That’s Southern-style middle-finger politics in action.
November 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
That’s not just a White House demolition. That’s Southern-style middle-finger politics in action.
Happy Halloween from your favorite Schuyler sister. 🎃🩵
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#Hamilton #HappyHalloween #HamiltonMusical #historymajor #AmRev
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#Hamilton #HappyHalloween #HamiltonMusical #historymajor #AmRev
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Happy Halloween from your favorite Schuyler sister. 🎃🩵
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#Hamilton #HappyHalloween #HamiltonMusical #historymajor #AmRev
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#Hamilton #HappyHalloween #HamiltonMusical #historymajor #AmRev
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Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It aids fascism.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social kill it in this morning’s episode of “what the heck just happened?”
Psychologist’s addendum: people with deep psychopathy don’t care about history or how they are represented in history.
Psychologist’s addendum: people with deep psychopathy don’t care about history or how they are represented in history.
What the Heck Just Happened?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social kill it in this morning’s episode of “what the heck just happened?”
Psychologist’s addendum: people with deep psychopathy don’t care about history or how they are represented in history.
Psychologist’s addendum: people with deep psychopathy don’t care about history or how they are represented in history.
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This would be a good time to express your views about this…..proposal.
If UCLA is exposed for even considering this, it might matter.
Read it, and you’ll see why people were trying to keep it secret.
If UCLA is exposed for even considering this, it might matter.
Read it, and you’ll see why people were trying to keep it secret.
Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This would be a good time to express your views about this…..proposal.
If UCLA is exposed for even considering this, it might matter.
Read it, and you’ll see why people were trying to keep it secret.
If UCLA is exposed for even considering this, it might matter.
Read it, and you’ll see why people were trying to keep it secret.
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Even in the movies, scenes of the White House getting blown up by invading aliens or terrorists feel emotionally unsettling.
It’s the People’s House after all.
So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.
It’s the People’s House after all.
So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Even in the movies, scenes of the White House getting blown up by invading aliens or terrorists feel emotionally unsettling.
It’s the People’s House after all.
So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.
It’s the People’s House after all.
So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.
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Stop saying “renovation.”
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Stop saying “renovation.”
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball
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Why do all the cries for making the United States “great” again come from people who also advocate and support an undemocratic president and seem very much okay with the idea of an authoritarian “king?”
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Why do all the cries for making the United States “great” again come from people who also advocate and support an undemocratic president and seem very much okay with the idea of an authoritarian “king?”
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
The single most UNAMERICAN thing you can do is be pro-authoritarian and pro-monarch.
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Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social
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The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
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Too often, LGBTQ+ lives are left out of the stories about the American Revolutionary Era.
We change that in Ep. 414 with John McCurdy. Join us.
👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/414
#PrideMonth #EarlyAmericanHistory #Skystorians
We change that in Ep. 414 with John McCurdy. Join us.
👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/414
#PrideMonth #EarlyAmericanHistory #Skystorians
June 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Too often, LGBTQ+ lives are left out of the stories about the American Revolutionary Era.
We change that in Ep. 414 with John McCurdy. Join us.
👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/414
#PrideMonth #EarlyAmericanHistory #Skystorians
We change that in Ep. 414 with John McCurdy. Join us.
👉 www.benfranklinsworld.com/414
#PrideMonth #EarlyAmericanHistory #Skystorians
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They say Revere rode, Franklin wrote, and Washington won.
But before any of that, Joseph Warren led.
@bfworld.bsky.social's new episode reveals how this "lost hero" became the face of #Boston’s Revolution—until Bunker Hill
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/413
#HistoryMatters #EarlyAmerica #Revolution250
But before any of that, Joseph Warren led.
@bfworld.bsky.social's new episode reveals how this "lost hero" became the face of #Boston’s Revolution—until Bunker Hill
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/413
#HistoryMatters #EarlyAmerica #Revolution250
June 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
They say Revere rode, Franklin wrote, and Washington won.
But before any of that, Joseph Warren led.
@bfworld.bsky.social's new episode reveals how this "lost hero" became the face of #Boston’s Revolution—until Bunker Hill
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/413
#HistoryMatters #EarlyAmerica #Revolution250
But before any of that, Joseph Warren led.
@bfworld.bsky.social's new episode reveals how this "lost hero" became the face of #Boston’s Revolution—until Bunker Hill
🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/413
#HistoryMatters #EarlyAmerica #Revolution250
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#OTD 250 years ago, Congress commissioned #GeorgeWashington as general & commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
While an essential post, many feared what he could become.
Read more about how GW became the man who would not be king:
www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/res...
While an essential post, many feared what he could become.
Read more about how GW became the man who would not be king:
www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/res...
The Reintroduction of George Washington
www.colonialwilliamsburg.org
June 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#OTD 250 years ago, Congress commissioned #GeorgeWashington as general & commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
While an essential post, many feared what he could become.
Read more about how GW became the man who would not be king:
www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/res...
While an essential post, many feared what he could become.
Read more about how GW became the man who would not be king:
www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/res...
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Solidarity with everyone out there protesting today. Cannot myself this weekend for various personal reasons but with you in furious spirit. Be safe. Be smart. Take care of each other. Fuck fascism, fuck ICE, down with kings.
June 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Solidarity with everyone out there protesting today. Cannot myself this weekend for various personal reasons but with you in furious spirit. Be safe. Be smart. Take care of each other. Fuck fascism, fuck ICE, down with kings.
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The Journals of Congress for June 14, 1775. A fairly spare account of committing to arm companies of riflemen, and the pay schedule,but the use of the term “American Continental Army” is significant.
Thinking about friends and family who have served inc in key civilian roles.
Thinking about friends and family who have served inc in key civilian roles.
June 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Journals of Congress for June 14, 1775. A fairly spare account of committing to arm companies of riflemen, and the pay schedule,but the use of the term “American Continental Army” is significant.
Thinking about friends and family who have served inc in key civilian roles.
Thinking about friends and family who have served inc in key civilian roles.