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Sporadic emails jam-packed with trivia, doodles, Venn diagrams, book recommendations, tangents, and other fun stuff. All history-related. Not all brief. Or about briefs. But not necessarily not brief. Or about briefs.

Newsletter · By Heather Rogers · English · Official site

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Just finished reading: Presidentess (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Presidentess-inspired meandering (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Celebrity, politics, & grief (opens the original)

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    I started following Elizabeth Reese after she was a panelist at Lafayette 200 event. Then a few months ago, I posted doodle wondering if John Wilkes Booth1 was related to John Wilkes, Esq2… a British politician who popped up in David McCullough’s 1776.<div class="captioned-ima

  4. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    Just finished reading: John Tyler (opens the original)

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    Super weird reading about Lady Bird Johnson and pivoting to John Tyler. Also unusual that I’m chasing Tyler with a book about his second wife. That’s a whole lotta Tyler, but I have a presentation about him coming up in October and didn’t doodle my way through the book I read way back when.I looked to <a href="https://bestpresidentialbios.com/2014/01/02/t

  5. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    September FLOTUS birthdays (opens the original)

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