Alison Herring
@historyherring.bsky.social
Studying the Powell Family Papers held at W&M - an unconventional 19th century family from Loudoun County, VA.
BLM; LGBTQIA+ Ally; Pro-Choice; Jesus Follower; Former Big Four Audit Sr Mgr; Pronouns: She/Her
http://alisonherring.com
BLM; LGBTQIA+ Ally; Pro-Choice; Jesus Follower; Former Big Four Audit Sr Mgr; Pronouns: She/Her
http://alisonherring.com
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It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Jessica Dean’s management of this chaos will be legendary!!!! She was summarizing the issue and introducing a guest WHILE hearing the breaking news, then announced it AND continued on effortlessly. WOW!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Jessica Dean’s management of this chaos will be legendary!!!! She was summarizing the issue and introducing a guest WHILE hearing the breaking news, then announced it AND continued on effortlessly. WOW!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I don’t mean to brag, but I had a pinned comment during the live performance of Phantom of the Opera with LEGOS tonight! 😎
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I don’t mean to brag, but I had a pinned comment during the live performance of Phantom of the Opera with LEGOS tonight! 😎
Good Lord, Ep5 of #AmericanRevolution tells the stories of a lot of bloodbaths. #HATM
Makes me think of Renee Zellweger’s line in Cold Mtn: “Every piece of this is man’s bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather then stand in the rain and say shit, it’s raining!”
Makes me think of Renee Zellweger’s line in Cold Mtn: “Every piece of this is man’s bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather then stand in the rain and say shit, it’s raining!”
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Good Lord, Ep5 of #AmericanRevolution tells the stories of a lot of bloodbaths. #HATM
Makes me think of Renee Zellweger’s line in Cold Mtn: “Every piece of this is man’s bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather then stand in the rain and say shit, it’s raining!”
Makes me think of Renee Zellweger’s line in Cold Mtn: “Every piece of this is man’s bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather then stand in the rain and say shit, it’s raining!”
I’m thankful for the voice if Mary Jemison in #AmericanRevolution. Thank you to those who have researched her and her people! #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I’m thankful for the voice if Mary Jemison in #AmericanRevolution. Thank you to those who have researched her and her people! #HATM
Learning about the eclipse of the sun that happened during the #AmericanRevolution is easier to understand after being in the Path of Totality in 2024. Even understanding it and expecting it, that was wild! #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Learning about the eclipse of the sun that happened during the #AmericanRevolution is easier to understand after being in the Path of Totality in 2024. Even understanding it and expecting it, that was wild! #HATM
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This sequence on Betsy Ambler is good. It is easy to forget that children are caught up in the revolution and as well. My colleague Holly White is working on children in the revolution and has a new book coming out soon on children in the early US.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10196/
#HATM
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10196/
#HATM
Constructing American Childhood
<p><b>How definitions of childhood in early America codified social hierarchies and remain with us today</b></p><p>As of 2025, in the United States an
www.upress.virginia.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This sequence on Betsy Ambler is good. It is easy to forget that children are caught up in the revolution and as well. My colleague Holly White is working on children in the revolution and has a new book coming out soon on children in the early US.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10196/
#HATM
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10196/
#HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
They made the point on #AmericanRevolution that ordinary individuals tried to stay out of the way and asked of politics, "what does this have to do with me?"
Oppressed people *never* ask that question.
#HATM
Oppressed people *never* ask that question.
#HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
They made the point on #AmericanRevolution that ordinary individuals tried to stay out of the way and asked of politics, "what does this have to do with me?"
Oppressed people *never* ask that question.
#HATM
Oppressed people *never* ask that question.
#HATM
One of these Virginia officers that resigned and went home was Leven Powell of Loudoun County. He blamed “poor health.” Well… yeah…
Everyone at Valley Forge: same!
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
Everyone at Valley Forge: same!
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of these Virginia officers that resigned and went home was Leven Powell of Loudoun County. He blamed “poor health.” Well… yeah…
Everyone at Valley Forge: same!
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
Everyone at Valley Forge: same!
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
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We should ask every chud if they’d personally rather use Arabic or Roman numerals, then legally enforce whichever choice they make for the rest of their lives.
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
We should ask every chud if they’d personally rather use Arabic or Roman numerals, then legally enforce whichever choice they make for the rest of their lives.
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This is what gender solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like, Part 6:
Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase helps Jeffrey Epstein conceal the paper trail documenting the vast sums of $ he transacts as an industrial-scale trafficker of young girls to rapists. It's profitable for the bank.
Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase helps Jeffrey Epstein conceal the paper trail documenting the vast sums of $ he transacts as an industrial-scale trafficker of young girls to rapists. It's profitable for the bank.
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is what gender solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like, Part 6:
Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase helps Jeffrey Epstein conceal the paper trail documenting the vast sums of $ he transacts as an industrial-scale trafficker of young girls to rapists. It's profitable for the bank.
Jamie Dimon of JPMorganChase helps Jeffrey Epstein conceal the paper trail documenting the vast sums of $ he transacts as an industrial-scale trafficker of young girls to rapists. It's profitable for the bank.
Oh my gosh...
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Oh my gosh...
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Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
I’d love to hear more voices than just John and Abigail Adams - as great as they were. #HATM #AmericanRevolution
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’d love to hear more voices than just John and Abigail Adams - as great as they were. #HATM #AmericanRevolution
The history of Winchester, VA during the #AmericanRevolution was interesting. I didn’t know Betsy Ambler’s family went that far west. Winchester would have been a shock compared to Yorktown!!
Interesting that it was so quiet given the hellscape it was during the Civil War.
#HATM
Interesting that it was so quiet given the hellscape it was during the Civil War.
#HATM
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The history of Winchester, VA during the #AmericanRevolution was interesting. I didn’t know Betsy Ambler’s family went that far west. Winchester would have been a shock compared to Yorktown!!
Interesting that it was so quiet given the hellscape it was during the Civil War.
#HATM
Interesting that it was so quiet given the hellscape it was during the Civil War.
#HATM
Baroness Frederika Riedesel crossed the Atlantic after giving birth to a child, and she took the infant and 2 other small children with her. Geez! The physical and mental strength she had is impressive.
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Baroness Frederika Riedesel crossed the Atlantic after giving birth to a child, and she took the infant and 2 other small children with her. Geez! The physical and mental strength she had is impressive.
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
#AmericanRevolution #HATM
We got 1 minute and 7 seconds on flags! #HATM #AmericanRevolution
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
We got 1 minute and 7 seconds on flags! #HATM #AmericanRevolution
I am bored in Ep 4 of #AmericanRevolution. I thought this series would have a wider focus beyond battles, which a small % of people saw. I want more on the economy, society, culture, civilian experience, etc. They covered Jane McCrea & propaganda, but these parts feel like a wink. #HATM
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I am bored in Ep 4 of #AmericanRevolution. I thought this series would have a wider focus beyond battles, which a small % of people saw. I want more on the economy, society, culture, civilian experience, etc. They covered Jane McCrea & propaganda, but these parts feel like a wink. #HATM
Wow!! They’re not holding back describing the patriot troops! 😬 #AmericanRevolution #HATM
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Wow!! They’re not holding back describing the patriot troops! 😬 #AmericanRevolution #HATM
The painting of Washington they've used so often in #AmericanRevolution by Charles Willson Peale is at @crystalbridges.bsky.social in Northwest Arkansas.
#HATM
crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/21/g...
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crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/21/g...
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The painting of Washington they've used so often in #AmericanRevolution by Charles Willson Peale is at @crystalbridges.bsky.social in Northwest Arkansas.
#HATM
crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/21/g...
#HATM
crystalbridges.emuseum.com/objects/21/g...
Ugh. I just committed my worst pet peeve. I omitted her mother bc my focus was on her father - a general in the rev war. She was the daughter of Charles and Nancy Douglas Simms. 😱😤🤦🏻♀️
#HATM
#HATM
I say this acknowledging I’m not an expert and haven’t read as much as I’d like. The diary was of Catharine Simms Powell - daughter of Charles Simms. She wrote her observations late in life in the 1850s.
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Ugh. I just committed my worst pet peeve. I omitted her mother bc my focus was on her father - a general in the rev war. She was the daughter of Charles and Nancy Douglas Simms. 😱😤🤦🏻♀️
#HATM
#HATM