Creating a Historian (Me)
Every person who grows up to become a historian, arrives in the field in a unique way. However, no matter when they get there or how,...
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Christine Caccipuoti
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
Jessie Bonstelle and the State of Theater in 1931
The fight for the arts to be taken seriously and valued by wider audiences to the same level as they are by those who create art has been...
Christine Caccipuoti
- Jan 9, 2018
- 4 min
The Wisdom of Hortense, Queen of Holland
In the 1920s, a memoir written over a hundred years earlier by Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, was published. Hortense’s life...
Christine Caccipuoti
- Dec 2, 2017
- 5 min
December 2nd: A Good Day to be a Bonaparte
Every year when December 2nd rolls around I smile, because in the 19th century it was a very significant date for my favorite imperial...
Christine Caccipuoti
- Nov 17, 2017
- 7 min
10 Historical Musicals (Other Than Hamilton)
I considered calling this post “Everything I Need to Know about History I Learned from Musical Theatre” but that would be such a gross...
Christine Caccipuoti
- Aug 15, 2017
- 4 min
Napoleon versus...Rabbits?
[Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769. This post is my way of marking it, so Happy Birthday, Napoleon!] When Napoleon Bonaparte...
Christine Caccipuoti
- Jul 10, 2017
- 6 min
The History Girl
"Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere,...