Dr. Ala Montgomery

Early American historian working on settler colonialism and state power | center for digital history viceroy @gwbooks | Nova Scotian | she/her | tweets all me

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

I wrote a blog post about Nova Scotia as an idea and the long history of people seeing it as a not quite real place, ripe for transformation (spoiler: it’s not)

[J. History of Ideas @JHIdeas]

Alexandra L. Montgomery charts a history of projections and plans for Nova Scotia that have consistently rendered it a "perfect canvas for imperial fantasies." https://t.co/khDYIpfvuT

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

@crasswonder Going to be thinking about Halifax as Alabama Portland all day

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@ZMBennett @PennPress Congrats and can’t wait!

[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

✨ The newly restored first and second floors of the Mansion, including The Washingtons’ bedchamber, are now on view!

After months of meticulous preservation work, these iconic spaces have reopened just in time for the holiday season.

📅 Start planning your visit today: https://t.co/gaYPrLnrCO

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

Huge shout out to the @ffxconnector driver yesterday who found my wallet, realized I worked at Mount Vernon (route end) and went through the trouble of dropping it off at ticketing for me. Incredibly kind and unbelievably appreciated!!!!!

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

Just learned that the guy from that wretched Home song was also the lead singer of Ima Robot, and I feel like you could write a whole think piece/book on the concept of early 2000s “indie” as a concept using Home and this as bookends https://t.co/hlskXTfsd8

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

They’re letting a Quebecois guy direct a James Bond movie. The Seven Years’ War is finally over

[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

📜 Today marks 250 years since George Washington wrote this letter to Martha Washington, one of only three known to exist. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see it! Watch to the end to discover how this letter survived when Martha destroyed nearly all her correspondence with her husband.

@GWBooks

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

The fading pages of the manuscript were sitting in a screened-in porch at a home in Barrington, Rhode Island, for years. Now, historians @myrwu are carefully studying the handwritten manuscript. https://t.co/y4HUslqFfA

[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

📸 What can a photo from the 1800s tell us about the group of women who saved Mount Vernon?

Learn from Manager of Visual Resources Dawn Bonner about the earliest photo taken of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, one of the earliest preservation and heritage organizations in the United States.

[Age of Revolutions @AgeofRevs]

James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) https://t.co/HiIePFC4xN

[U.S. National Archives @USNatArchives]

It's #WorldBookDay and we're highlighting a page-turner in the holdings of the National Archives: George Washington's Revolutionary War account book. https://t.co/cRQLvOf8mY

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

This is keeping me going

[EggersFilms @EggersFilms]

Robert Eggers on the dialogue in his upcoming film Werwulf:

“I don’t know who leaked what, but it’s been said — and taken as official — that the movie is in Old English. But obviously, because of the 13th-century setting, it’s Middle English. I just want to be clear on that.”

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My contribution to the AC: Shadows Discourse™️ is that I am pleased to see the franchise build on one of the great strengths of the recent installations, petting all the animals.

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

If you’re there at 11:30 you can listen to me yammer about George Washington’s maps!

[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

📚 Visit The George Washington Presidential Library this Presidents' Day for a special open house.

@GWBooks

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BIRDS

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Very excited to welcome Zoie aboard today!

[USC History Dept. @UofSCHistory]

We are delighted to share the news that one of our recent PhD graduates, Dr Zoie Horecny, has been appointed Editor of the Digital George Washington Papers! She will be working with colleagues at the University of Virginia and the Washington Library. Congratulations Zoie!

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

PHILLY VERSUS THE WORLD BABY LET’S GOOOOO

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

😎😎😎

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

Finally, a rewind/wrapped for ME https://t.co/XohEAhWiUG

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

Finally, a rewind/wrapped for ME https://t.co/XohEAhWiUG

[Dr. Ala Montgomery @foreign_advices]

Frankly Billy Joel IS deeply sinister and I’m glad the discourse has finally gotten on my level