Annette Tells Tales

American Death Trip (2) English and Natives

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Making Friends (or not) and Influencing People Via Death, in Early Virginia

Apr 16 •

American Death Trip (1) Hurons and Fathers

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Death Has History! Riffing on a Historian's Stories of Death and Deadness in Early America

Mar 26 •

The Grifter, the Communist, the Wannabe Novelists

ANNETTE TELLS TALES How a Radical Upper-Class Brit and Talented Self-Taught Writer Caught A Powerful CEO (and Popular TV Star) in a Scam

Mar 12 •

Meet Black Patriots Fighting for Independence (their own)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Americans Who Support the British for Their Own Freedom, and Keep Fighting After the Brits Leave

Feb 6 •

Stiff Upper Lip? 😐😢😭

ANNETTE TELLS TALES A Surprising History of British Crying Shows How Complicated Stereotypes, Identity, and People Can Be

Jan 30 •

Democracy in Deep Doo-Doo 💩 (2)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Kansas Goes From Bad to Worse to John Brown's Bodies, Part 2

Jan 9 •

Democracy in Deep Doo-Doo 💩 (1)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Chaos, Violence, Voter Fraud and Intimidation, Fears of Losing American Freedoms: Sound Familiar? Welcome to Kansas, 1855!

Jan 2 •

Class Act: The Values of the Men Who Sold (out?)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Are Middle-Class People Always "Nice"? We visit early Charleston to find out.

Nov 14, 2023 •

Scots Cancel Slavery! (maybe)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES A Historian Unpacks A Letter From Georgia

Aug 29, 2023 •

The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (2)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES An Alt-New England Story, Continued

Aug 5, 2023 •

The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (1)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Could Early Colonial New England Have Been More English, More Indian, and More Fun?

Jul 29, 2023 •

Selling My Religion: Shopping and the Preacher (2)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES How George Whitefield Sold His Religion. Pay Especially Close Attention if You're in Business.

May 2, 2023 •

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