#us history

[allhailthe70shousewife]

“WASHINGTON — A man whose family members were key architects of the American conservative movement was sentenced Friday to three years and nine months in federal prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which included smashing windows that allowed the mob to storm into the building during the initial breach.

Federal prosecutors sought more than 11 years in prison and a terrorism enhancement for Brent Bozell IV, the son of Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell III and grandson of Joe McCarthy speechwriter Brent Bozell Jr., who was William F. Buckley Jr.'s brother-in-law and ghost-wrote Barry Goldwater's "The Conscience of a Conservative."

Bozell III founded the Parents Television and Media Council in 1995, when his son, now in his mid-40s, was a teenager. The organization targeted shows like "Friends," "Dawson’s Creek" and "Spin City," along with video games like "Mortal Kombat." Bozell III had said during the 2016 presidential campaign that Donald Trump "might be the greatest charlatan of them all," but he pivoted to defending Trump, even writing a 2019 book titled "Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump."

Bozell’s grandfather was “convicted of assaulting a police officer with a five-foot wooden cross” after he led an anti-abortion attack on a clinic in Washington, D.C., in 1970, according to his 1997 obituary in The Washington Post.”

[fiftysevenacademics]

I've been researching a topic just weird and niche enough-- cup plates--that it occurred to me the history, museum, and literature folks on Tumblr might be able to help me with. To date the most definitive research on cup plates was published in 1971. The author was unable to find a single contemporaneous image of cup plates in use. I set out to see if I could find new information now that so much has been digitized, and so far have not been able to improve much on the 1971 work.

The topic: Cup plates. Above is a photograph of a few glass cup plates in my collection, all most likely made circa 1820s-1840s. Cup plates are small saucers about 3-3.5 inches in diameter made of glass or porcelain. Glass cup plates were made in North America while the porcelain ones were mostly made in England for export to America. In informal or private settings or when in a great hurry, people would pour their tea into the saucer to cool quickly before drinking it directly from the saucer. To protect the table, they then set the dripping tea cup on the cup plate. Etiquette manuals railed against the practice of saucer-sipping and the only description I found of people actually using cup plates was in a context where people were in too much hurry to drink their tea more slowly. I found more references to drinking from a saucer (minus cup plate mention) and they, too, often mentioned haste and always implied that this was an impolite custom. Nonetheless, it was common enough that a housekeeping manual from the 1840s showed where the cup plates should be placed on an informal tea table. This seems to have been a uniquely American practice but strangely, only one travel narrative that I found mentions this odd custom (in the context of a frenetic meal on a riverboat). I figured English travelers would've commented on it, which is one reason I concluded it wasn't behavior travelers would have seen frequently because they weren't in as many casual or intimate spaces. You will find a lot of misinformation on the Internet about cup plate use but what I've written here is more accurate.

How can you help? I have been looking for images or printed references to cup plates being used. I've searched the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, various museums that have good digital collections, academic databases for scholarly articles, and archive.org and came up with exactly one image, which is the diagram in the aforementioned housekeeping manual (Beecher), though I found numerous images of people drinking tea from a saucer (minus cup plate). I go to a lot of museums and am constantly looking for contemporaneous images that depict cup plates in use and still haven't seen any.

If you, in the course of your research, work, or hobbies, happen to encounter a 19th Century (or even 18th C though I think they were invented in the 19th, I could be wrong) written or visual reference to cup plates being used would you please share it with me-- a link to the reference or photo/screencap with citation or other documentation (e.g. I saw this at X museum on X date) would be perfect.

[animentality]

[saul-tortellini]

Slapping the homie's ass in the dust bowl and zapping both of us across the room

[ivygorgon]

"No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us." -Marsha P. Johnson

[marzipanandminutiae]

I'm at the Boston Massacre site

I'm at the SweetGreen

I'm at the combination Boston Massacre site and SweetGreen

[schmergo]

Historical house tours are so confusing. They’ll be like, “When we head upstairs, pay special attention to the Blue Room, where Colonel Thomas J. Shmoshington carved a suggestive message on the bedpost.”

And you’ll walk into a room with bright blue walls and be like, “Oh, I guess this is the Blue Room?”

And they’ll be like, “NO! This is the Red Room! It’s called the Red Room because of the red velvet curtains and canopy bed!” Then they take you into a white room with yellow floral wallpaper trim and go, “THIS is the Blue Room!”

And when you humbly ask why it’s called the Blue Room, they’ll scoff at you like you were born yesterday (rather than in 1789) and be like, “It’s called the Blue Room because it USED TO BE blue! The entire mansion is painstakingly restored to its appearance in the year 1812, which happens to fall during the two-year span in in which Abigail Shmaddison redid the room in white and yellow in a flight of fancy. After spending some time away in a sanitarium, she regained her senses and changed it back to blue. An archaeologist found an original scrap of the yellow wallpaper beneath 13 layers of paint and we were able to match it perfectly with this pattern, which was of course developed by Q.B. Zippitydoo & Sons in London and available for purchase only in 1812. Any more questions?”

So you hold your tongue until you enter a big green room that is so incredibly green that it can’t possibly be anything but the Green Room. It has acid green walls. It has bright green curtains. It has forest green tablecloths. There are ivy motifs carved in the ceiling. Cautiously, you venture, “So this is the Green Room?”

And they say, “NO! This is the parlor!”

[intersectionalpraxis]

Resources OP provides:

[decolonize-the-left]

If you only take one thing from my blog ever let it be this:

Don't join the US military machine in any capacity.

x

[profeminist]

Source: "Cunk on Earth is a British mockumentary television series produced by Charlie Brooker. The series stars Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunk_on_Earth

[ntls-24722]

Filbert Stuart, Presidential Affairs (1823-1825)

Oil on canvas, 97.5 in × 62.5 in

context

@glitterfartsprinkle GET YOUR ACRYLICS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

@ravewing as well bc you were the OP. sorry that papyrus undertale took your man

[allhailthe70shousewife]

My husband pointed out that it took him 5 lines to get his name out and then he flips into third person. So you know you’re dealing with one tough customer.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[animentality]

[saul-tortellini]

There has to be some level of self-relfection after you hire the honest-to-god PINKERTONS to BREAK SOMEONE'S LEGS on which you're forced to acknowledge that you're now just a straight up movie villain

[daddysakic]

It’s weird it’s happened 10 times right?