neednothavehappenedtobetrue:

elizajumel:

top moments in early american history

• jefferson and madison tour the countryside in pursuit of the hessian fly
• aaron burr literally getting painted out of trumbull’s depiction of the death of montgomery even though he was like the only person there
• jefferson delivers his inaugural address and no one can hear him
• ‘delenda est carthago’
• when new york city celebrated the election of 1800 by lighting up two huge hearts in the sky with colored lamps to represent burr and jefferson
• the time peter irving tried to defend burr from accusations that he had worn bulletproof silk during the duel by arguing that it was actually a cotton-bombazine blend and james cheetham responded with ‘lmao ur gay’
• the reynolds pamphlet
• john marshall forgets his pants

someone explain “delenda est carthago” to me, who was that?

please explain it to me I will give you a thousand cookies with fake names. 

(in the context of early American History. I know about Cato)

also, bulletproof silk, a thing?