by snarly | Oct 31, 2024 | Historical Apologies
On the eve of April Fool’s Day in 1848, two sisters in Hydesville, NY, began screaming for their mother. Margaretta, known as Maggie, was 14; Catherine, called Kate, was 11. Something in their bedroom was making thumping sounds, apparently attempting to communicate...
by sumac | Jun 25, 2024 | Historical Apologies
We won’t go into the entire remarkable career of Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley with the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), but will look at an incident in 1946, and what followed. Major Adams, as she was then, was commanding officer of the 6888th Battalion. The...
by sumac | Jul 28, 2023 | Historical Apologies
(Reviving a post from 2012, because not getting an apology doesn’t make feelings go away.) The Events: It would be nice if we were all familiar with the Great Upheaval/Grand Dérangement – the forcible exile of the Acadians from the Maritime Provinces of Canada....
by sumac | Feb 16, 2023 | Historical Apologies
We have a criticism for Karl Marx, but maybe not one you might expect. A friend of SorryWatch was reading the correspondence between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and came across a remarkable 1863 exchange of letters they knew would startle us. As this small tale...
by snarly | Jan 11, 2022 | Historical Apologies
January 14 will mark the 325th anniversary of Judge Samuel Sewall’s apology for his conduct during the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1697, Sewall stood up before God and everybody in Boston’s Old South Church and bowed his head. The Rev. Samuel Willard read...
by sumac | Apr 15, 2021 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
There’s a letter from Edgar Allan Poe, now in the collection of the University of Virginia, which contains an evasive little apology. The 1842 letter is to J and HG Langley, publishers of the Democratic Review, for whom he’d written before. Poe, a...
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