Denise Kiernan | Author, etc.
@denisekiernan.com
COMING 2026: OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS
Author: THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, THE LAST CASTLE, WE GATHER TOGETHER & other writerly whatnot
BOOKS: denisekiernan.com/buy
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Author: THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, THE LAST CASTLE, WE GATHER TOGETHER & other writerly whatnot
BOOKS: denisekiernan.com/buy
Stay in touch: newsletter.denisekiernan.com
#photography #history #vegan #ASRoma
I❤️Dobermans
So thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming book OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS, arriving 23 June 2026!!!
13 colonies. Countless amazing women. One compelling story.
#history #ushistory #sistercentennial
13 colonies. Countless amazing women. One compelling story.
#history #ushistory #sistercentennial
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
So thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming book OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS, arriving 23 June 2026!!!
13 colonies. Countless amazing women. One compelling story.
#history #ushistory #sistercentennial
13 colonies. Countless amazing women. One compelling story.
#history #ushistory #sistercentennial
So excited to share the cover for my upcoming book with you all!!!
Keep your eyes on this feed at 2PM ET!!!
#booksky #history #writingcommunity
Keep your eyes on this feed at 2PM ET!!!
#booksky #history #writingcommunity
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
So excited to share the cover for my upcoming book with you all!!!
Keep your eyes on this feed at 2PM ET!!!
#booksky #history #writingcommunity
Keep your eyes on this feed at 2PM ET!!!
#booksky #history #writingcommunity
I love how poetry was used during the Revolutionary Era to convey pride, despair, anger, joy..
This snippet is taken from an elegiac poem dedicated to Bunker Hill:
"What shall we say when 'tis decreed,
By fate it must be so?
To cause our dearest brethren's blood
From ev'ry vein to flow..."
This snippet is taken from an elegiac poem dedicated to Bunker Hill:
"What shall we say when 'tis decreed,
By fate it must be so?
To cause our dearest brethren's blood
From ev'ry vein to flow..."
MHS Collections Online: An Elegiac Poem, Composed On The Never-To-Be-Forgotten Terrible And Bloody Battle Fought At An Intrenchment On Bunker-Hill
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections Online: An Elegiac Poem, Composed On The Never-To-Be-Forgotten Terrible And Bloody Battle Fought At An Intrenchment On Bunker-Hill
www.masshist.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I love how poetry was used during the Revolutionary Era to convey pride, despair, anger, joy..
This snippet is taken from an elegiac poem dedicated to Bunker Hill:
"What shall we say when 'tis decreed,
By fate it must be so?
To cause our dearest brethren's blood
From ev'ry vein to flow..."
This snippet is taken from an elegiac poem dedicated to Bunker Hill:
"What shall we say when 'tis decreed,
By fate it must be so?
To cause our dearest brethren's blood
From ev'ry vein to flow..."
For Hanukkah: Believed to be the first-ever Jewish sermon published in the American colonies. Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregall, a rabbi visiting from Hebron, delivered the sermon on May 28, 1773, at the Touro synagogue in Newport, RI, the oldest synagogue in the US.
#history #ushist #hanukkah
#history #ushist #hanukkah
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"The 18th century saw the print industry boom, with annual newspaper circulations of 2.4 million copies in 1713, and 16 million in 1801..."
I consulted MANY newspapers and broadsides while researching my upcoming #book. Love this article at English Heritage by Tim Clayton: buff.ly/MMjxxZG
#history
I consulted MANY newspapers and broadsides while researching my upcoming #book. Love this article at English Heritage by Tim Clayton: buff.ly/MMjxxZG
#history
Satire and Scandal: Media in 18th-Century England
News sharing and gathering has been in existence, in one form or another, as long as communication itself. But a boom in 18th-century publishing launched a new media culture that saw the news…
www.english-heritage.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"The 18th century saw the print industry boom, with annual newspaper circulations of 2.4 million copies in 1713, and 16 million in 1801..."
I consulted MANY newspapers and broadsides while researching my upcoming #book. Love this article at English Heritage by Tim Clayton: buff.ly/MMjxxZG
#history
I consulted MANY newspapers and broadsides while researching my upcoming #book. Love this article at English Heritage by Tim Clayton: buff.ly/MMjxxZG
#history
Few things bring me as much joy as spotting a monarch #butterfly in my #garden. I plant all the attractors, yet each year, fewer and fewer appear. But…this year I spotted three hanging out together on my tithonia. Yay.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#FavoriteThings #gratitude #photography #naturephotography
#BlueSkyArtShow
#FavoriteThings #gratitude #photography #naturephotography
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Few things bring me as much joy as spotting a monarch #butterfly in my #garden. I plant all the attractors, yet each year, fewer and fewer appear. But…this year I spotted three hanging out together on my tithonia. Yay.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#FavoriteThings #gratitude #photography #naturephotography
#BlueSkyArtShow
#FavoriteThings #gratitude #photography #naturephotography
In keeping with my love of Revolutionary Era restrooms...Sort of...
Bathroom signs from Colonial Williamsburg, one of the many stops on my #RevolutionaryRoadTrip while researching my latest #book.
#booksky #history #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250
Bathroom signs from Colonial Williamsburg, one of the many stops on my #RevolutionaryRoadTrip while researching my latest #book.
#booksky #history #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
In keeping with my love of Revolutionary Era restrooms...Sort of...
Bathroom signs from Colonial Williamsburg, one of the many stops on my #RevolutionaryRoadTrip while researching my latest #book.
#booksky #history #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250
Bathroom signs from Colonial Williamsburg, one of the many stops on my #RevolutionaryRoadTrip while researching my latest #book.
#booksky #history #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250
Latest newsletter is out:
Meteor showers, Manhattan Project, mailbox mysteries, making merry and, of course, Bruno.
You know. The usual.
buff.ly/UmNh7eC
#booksky #writingcommunity #hollyjolly #dogs
Meteor showers, Manhattan Project, mailbox mysteries, making merry and, of course, Bruno.
You know. The usual.
buff.ly/UmNh7eC
#booksky #writingcommunity #hollyjolly #dogs
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Latest newsletter is out:
Meteor showers, Manhattan Project, mailbox mysteries, making merry and, of course, Bruno.
You know. The usual.
buff.ly/UmNh7eC
#booksky #writingcommunity #hollyjolly #dogs
Meteor showers, Manhattan Project, mailbox mysteries, making merry and, of course, Bruno.
You know. The usual.
buff.ly/UmNh7eC
#booksky #writingcommunity #hollyjolly #dogs
Archival research means spending a lot of time inside, and often in rooms with no windows. But the Charleston Library Society, the second-oldest circulating library in the country, is a place I love to return to again and again. (Its outside looks pretty good, too.) HIGHLY recommend. #writing #books
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Archival research means spending a lot of time inside, and often in rooms with no windows. But the Charleston Library Society, the second-oldest circulating library in the country, is a place I love to return to again and again. (Its outside looks pretty good, too.) HIGHLY recommend. #writing #books
206 days until #America celebrates its 250th anniversary. Today I'm sharing a print from 250 years ago titled, "The Scotch butchery, Boston, 1775."
The print includes a key identifying, among others, the "Scotch Butchers," & "English Soldiers struck with Horror..." From the British Museum.
#history
The print includes a key identifying, among others, the "Scotch Butchers," & "English Soldiers struck with Horror..." From the British Museum.
#history
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Battle of Great Bridge was 250 years ago today.
This map—"A view of the Great Bridge near Norfolk in Virginia where the action happened between a detachment of the 14th Regt: & a body of the rebels"—is from the collection @clementslibrary.bsky.social
#history #OTD #ushistory #booksky
This map—"A view of the Great Bridge near Norfolk in Virginia where the action happened between a detachment of the 14th Regt: & a body of the rebels"—is from the collection @clementslibrary.bsky.social
#history #OTD #ushistory #booksky
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The Battle of Great Bridge was 250 years ago today.
This map—"A view of the Great Bridge near Norfolk in Virginia where the action happened between a detachment of the 14th Regt: & a body of the rebels"—is from the collection @clementslibrary.bsky.social
#history #OTD #ushistory #booksky
This map—"A view of the Great Bridge near Norfolk in Virginia where the action happened between a detachment of the 14th Regt: & a body of the rebels"—is from the collection @clementslibrary.bsky.social
#history #OTD #ushistory #booksky
One of my favorite places in New York City, and I got to include it in my new book about the #AmericanRevolution. Any guesses?
#history #travel #NYC
#history #travel #NYC
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
One of my favorite places in New York City, and I got to include it in my new book about the #AmericanRevolution. Any guesses?
#history #travel #NYC
#history #travel #NYC
One of my favorite stops on my research travels:
Boston's Beantown Pub, across from the Granary Burial Ground which is, as the sign says, "The only place where you can drink a COLD SAM ADAMS while looking at a COLD SAM ADAMS."
#revolutionaryroadtrip #writerslife #history
Boston's Beantown Pub, across from the Granary Burial Ground which is, as the sign says, "The only place where you can drink a COLD SAM ADAMS while looking at a COLD SAM ADAMS."
#revolutionaryroadtrip #writerslife #history
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
One of my favorite stops on my research travels:
Boston's Beantown Pub, across from the Granary Burial Ground which is, as the sign says, "The only place where you can drink a COLD SAM ADAMS while looking at a COLD SAM ADAMS."
#revolutionaryroadtrip #writerslife #history
Boston's Beantown Pub, across from the Granary Burial Ground which is, as the sign says, "The only place where you can drink a COLD SAM ADAMS while looking at a COLD SAM ADAMS."
#revolutionaryroadtrip #writerslife #history
Baking helps me edit.
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Baking helps me edit.
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
"THEY who adventure to impart their Works to publick view must resolve at the same time to have as many Censurers as Readers."
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"THEY who adventure to impart their Works to publick view must resolve at the same time to have as many Censurers as Readers."
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
250 years ago today, Henry Knox wrote his wife, Lucy—who features prominently in my upcoming #book—that he will "over Lake George to Ticonderoga." His goal? secure weaponry for the Continental Army & and haul it to Cambridge, MA.
Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
buff.ly/qrjnifx
to Lucy Knox | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
to Lucy Knox | | A brief note to tell his wife that he has arrived near Fort Ticonderoga and is in good health. Comments that the battery is waiting for him, in reference to his orders from George…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
250 years ago today, Henry Knox wrote his wife, Lucy—who features prominently in my upcoming #book—that he will "over Lake George to Ticonderoga." His goal? secure weaponry for the Continental Army & and haul it to Cambridge, MA.
Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
buff.ly/qrjnifx
Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
buff.ly/qrjnifx
That's it. I can't take it anymore.
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That's it. I can't take it anymore.
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
Yet another reason to love and be thankful for
@archive.org
@archive.org
It’s Final Draw day for World Cup 26! ⚽️
Decades of FIFA & #WorldCup - related sites are preserved in the Wayback Machine; some of the 1 trillion pages saved.
Kick off a trip through the websites of the tournament & your favorite teams with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org
#Wayback1T
Decades of FIFA & #WorldCup - related sites are preserved in the Wayback Machine; some of the 1 trillion pages saved.
Kick off a trip through the websites of the tournament & your favorite teams with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org
#Wayback1T
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yet another reason to love and be thankful for
@archive.org
@archive.org
@barryglendenning.bsky.social Very much relying on the levity of your live @us.theguardian.com coverage of the #WorldCup draw. It is keeping me from hurling my stuffed "Footix" from the '98 WC at the television.
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@barryglendenning.bsky.social Very much relying on the levity of your live @us.theguardian.com coverage of the #WorldCup draw. It is keeping me from hurling my stuffed "Footix" from the '98 WC at the television.
As the holiday season is upon us, I share Sarah Fayerweather's #recipe for gingerbread from her 1764 cookbook. I came across this while researching my new #book at the wonderful Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social.
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As the holiday season is upon us, I share Sarah Fayerweather's #recipe for gingerbread from her 1764 cookbook. I came across this while researching my new #book at the wonderful Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social.
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
For #GivingTuesday: A 1769 map of "ye great town of Boston" including, among other sites, the Alms House. These charitable institutions have a fascinating #history, and were an important part of colonial communities.
From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
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From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
buff.ly/IQdmtRd
A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall [sic] buildings, & new streets, to the year, 1769 - American Revolutionary Geographies Online
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
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
For #GivingTuesday: A 1769 map of "ye great town of Boston" including, among other sites, the Alms House. These charitable institutions have a fascinating #history, and were an important part of colonial communities.
From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
buff.ly/IQdmtRd
From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
buff.ly/IQdmtRd
250 years ago today:
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
250 years ago today:
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
Was reorganizing albums—yes, vinyl—and came across my copy of "The Fifes & Drums of Williamsburg." The 1975 album had extensive liner notes—remember those?—which included this 1775 ad from the "Virginia Gazette" offering to "learn" boys the "military musick of the fife and drum."
#history #music
#history #music
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A widowed mother of five with no formal education, who remarkably went on to become one of the most powerful magazine editors in America: Sarah Joseph Hale, daughter of a #RevolutionaryWar veteran, whose obsession with #thanksgiving was instrumental in creating the modern American tradition.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A widowed mother of five with no formal education, who remarkably went on to become one of the most powerful magazine editors in America: Sarah Joseph Hale, daughter of a #RevolutionaryWar veteran, whose obsession with #thanksgiving was instrumental in creating the modern American tradition.