Month: April 2026

Colonial Literature, American Politics and the Tyranny of the Reply Guy Stephanie’s Diary: What Jefferson Would Have Posted Parchment and pixels from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. I have been reading a lot of colonial-era pamphlets for a piece I’m writing, and I can tell you with certainty that Thomas Jefferson would have been … Read more

Stephanie Curry on Colonial Appetite, Pharmaceutical Wars, and the Founding Farmers Diary of Stephanie Curry, Bohiney Magazine | Historically grounded absurdity via The London Prat Tuesday: The Farmer in American History, Then and Now The American farmer has always been a political actor. Jefferson imagined the republic as a nation of yeoman farmers — self-sufficient, … Read more

Stephanie Curry on Colonial History, American Exceptionalism, and the Art of the Rescue Mission Diary of Stephanie Curry, Bohiney Magazine | Historically grounded absurdity via The London Prat Monday: The Long Arc of American Self-Confidence In 1776, a group of colonists, angry about taxation without representation, threw a large quantity of tea into Boston Harbour. … Read more