Caitlin’ Histories
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historical researcher with a focus in New England & Upstate New York 🌊🦞 #Skystorian
11 Days Before the Boston Massacre
On February 22, 1770, 11-year-old Christopher Seider, a German immigrant, was walking home from school…
#forgottenhistory #BostonMassacre #ColonialAmerica #RevolutionaryWar #americanhistory
On February 22, 1770, 11-year-old Christopher Seider, a German immigrant, was walking home from school…
#forgottenhistory #BostonMassacre #ColonialAmerica #RevolutionaryWar #americanhistory
January 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM
11 Days Before the Boston Massacre
On February 22, 1770, 11-year-old Christopher Seider, a German immigrant, was walking home from school…
#forgottenhistory #BostonMassacre #ColonialAmerica #RevolutionaryWar #americanhistory
On February 22, 1770, 11-year-old Christopher Seider, a German immigrant, was walking home from school…
#forgottenhistory #BostonMassacre #ColonialAmerica #RevolutionaryWar #americanhistory
For more than 300 years, no one knew what happened to them.
With no bodies recovered and no records created, families were left with uncertainty.
#ColonialWars #FamilyHistory #LostAtSea #elizabthandmary #phippsexpedition #americanhistory #bostonhistory #everydayhistory #kingwilliamswar
With no bodies recovered and no records created, families were left with uncertainty.
#ColonialWars #FamilyHistory #LostAtSea #elizabthandmary #phippsexpedition #americanhistory #bostonhistory #everydayhistory #kingwilliamswar
January 27, 2026 at 11:26 PM
For more than 300 years, no one knew what happened to them.
With no bodies recovered and no records created, families were left with uncertainty.
#ColonialWars #FamilyHistory #LostAtSea #elizabthandmary #phippsexpedition #americanhistory #bostonhistory #everydayhistory #kingwilliamswar
With no bodies recovered and no records created, families were left with uncertainty.
#ColonialWars #FamilyHistory #LostAtSea #elizabthandmary #phippsexpedition #americanhistory #bostonhistory #everydayhistory #kingwilliamswar
He Sailed After His Father’s Execution
William III Cheney was raised in the shadow of scandal.
Perhaps he hoped to restore honor to his family’s name when he joined the Phips Expedition in 1690.
His ship never returned.
#kingwilliamswar #phippsexpedition #colonialamerica #everydayhistory
William III Cheney was raised in the shadow of scandal.
Perhaps he hoped to restore honor to his family’s name when he joined the Phips Expedition in 1690.
His ship never returned.
#kingwilliamswar #phippsexpedition #colonialamerica #everydayhistory
January 27, 2026 at 6:58 PM
He Sailed After His Father’s Execution
William III Cheney was raised in the shadow of scandal.
Perhaps he hoped to restore honor to his family’s name when he joined the Phips Expedition in 1690.
His ship never returned.
#kingwilliamswar #phippsexpedition #colonialamerica #everydayhistory
William III Cheney was raised in the shadow of scandal.
Perhaps he hoped to restore honor to his family’s name when he joined the Phips Expedition in 1690.
His ship never returned.
#kingwilliamswar #phippsexpedition #colonialamerica #everydayhistory
Everyone is leaving #tiktok and I am one. Did any of the Blusky adjacent video apps ever take off? I do remember a few getting started months ago.
January 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Everyone is leaving #tiktok and I am one. Did any of the Blusky adjacent video apps ever take off? I do remember a few getting started months ago.
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History teachers across the country and at every grade level should organize a teach-in this week by having students explore the Boston Massacre as part of the #America250 commemoration.
January 26, 2026 at 1:50 AM
History teachers across the country and at every grade level should organize a teach-in this week by having students explore the Boston Massacre as part of the #America250 commemoration.
After Puritan justice was done, someone still had to live with the consequences.
Deborah Wiswall Cheney survived her husband’s execution and the loss of nearly all her children in infancy. This is where a family’s story truly begins.
#PuritanHistory #everydayhistory #ColonialAmerica #FamilyHistory
Deborah Wiswall Cheney survived her husband’s execution and the loss of nearly all her children in infancy. This is where a family’s story truly begins.
#PuritanHistory #everydayhistory #ColonialAmerica #FamilyHistory
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM
After Puritan justice was done, someone still had to live with the consequences.
Deborah Wiswall Cheney survived her husband’s execution and the loss of nearly all her children in infancy. This is where a family’s story truly begins.
#PuritanHistory #everydayhistory #ColonialAmerica #FamilyHistory
Deborah Wiswall Cheney survived her husband’s execution and the loss of nearly all her children in infancy. This is where a family’s story truly begins.
#PuritanHistory #everydayhistory #ColonialAmerica #FamilyHistory
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"I cannot remember a night so dark as to hinder or prevent the coming day: nor a storm so furious & dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine & a cloudless sky"--John Brown, Nov. 8, 1859
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
January 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
"I cannot remember a night so dark as to hinder or prevent the coming day: nor a storm so furious & dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine & a cloudless sky"--John Brown, Nov. 8, 1859
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️
Honoring Phillis Wheatley
No more, America in mournful strain Of wrongs and grievance unredress'd complain,
No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land.
#MLKDay #americanhistory #colonialhistory #blackhistorymonth
No more, America in mournful strain Of wrongs and grievance unredress'd complain,
No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land.
#MLKDay #americanhistory #colonialhistory #blackhistorymonth
January 20, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Honoring Phillis Wheatley
No more, America in mournful strain Of wrongs and grievance unredress'd complain,
No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land.
#MLKDay #americanhistory #colonialhistory #blackhistorymonth
No more, America in mournful strain Of wrongs and grievance unredress'd complain,
No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain, Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land.
#MLKDay #americanhistory #colonialhistory #blackhistorymonth
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I wish text to speech wouldn’t reveal that I say gonna and wanna so much! #linguistics
December 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I wish text to speech wouldn’t reveal that I say gonna and wanna so much! #linguistics
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Cool photo!
Marie in traditional Zeeland clothing on the motorcycle, c. 1938.
No, I'm not a time traveller.
Marie in traditional Zeeland clothing on the motorcycle, c. 1938.
No, I'm not a time traveller.
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Cool photo!
Marie in traditional Zeeland clothing on the motorcycle, c. 1938.
No, I'm not a time traveller.
Marie in traditional Zeeland clothing on the motorcycle, c. 1938.
No, I'm not a time traveller.
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BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
We had a king fighting for more voting rights? 👑
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
October 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We had a king fighting for more voting rights? 👑
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory
Massachusetts Bay ran as an almost independent Puritan republic from 1629 to 1684 — until the King annulled its charter, making their entire government was illegal on paper. They folded into the Dominion of New England, sparking one of the earliest “mini-revolutions” in American history. #history 🧵
October 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Massachusetts Bay ran as an almost independent Puritan republic from 1629 to 1684 — until the King annulled its charter, making their entire government was illegal on paper. They folded into the Dominion of New England, sparking one of the earliest “mini-revolutions” in American history. #history 🧵
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October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
King Charles II pushed for more voting rights in the 1660s. He ordered Massachusetts to expand the vote beyond church members to all landholding men. The Puritans resisted, clinging to religious purity tests for decades. Their stubbornness helped cost them their charter in 1684. #history #puritans
October 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...
My husband sent me a picture of a pregnant Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire.
September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My husband sent me a picture of a pregnant Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire.
Did the second generation of Puritans rebel against their parents like the hippies? Well, according to their elder, Minister John Eliot, the young men were growing their hair too long! The longer locks we think of puritan men sporting were actually a little rebellious for the time. 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Did the second generation of Puritans rebel against their parents like the hippies? Well, according to their elder, Minister John Eliot, the young men were growing their hair too long! The longer locks we think of puritan men sporting were actually a little rebellious for the time. 🧵
Shout out to New Sweden (1638-1655). A little bit of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey was once ruled by Queen Christina. These American Swedes would revolt against the English in 1669, we know how this ends. Their legacy is the introduction of the log cabin to America. #history #colonial
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Timeline cleanse. My father, a liberal farmer on the 1800s family farm, is making elderberry wine. Cheers!
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Timeline cleanse. My father, a liberal farmer on the 1800s family farm, is making elderberry wine. Cheers!