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...
by snarly | Dec 9, 2020 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
It was recently discovered that the late author Roald Dahl’s family had added a note to his web site. It was hidden, as Washington Post’s Ron Charles noted, “like a Golden Ticket hidden inside a Wonka Bar.” (The note took Snarly seven minutes...
by sumac | Oct 30, 2020 | Historical Apologies
Around 1910, a man who had recently become a grandfather learned that his grandchild was seriously ill and had to go to the hospital. His daughter, the child’s mother, was beside herself with worry, maybe close to a nervous breakdown. Although he was very busy,...
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