You’re Disorderly

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Race & Inequality in U.S. History

• On Northern segregation see Yelena Bailey, How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Ch. 1. eBook at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469660615_bailey.
• Other information in this section can be found in any solid textbook on U.S. history written by historians.

Washington & Jefferson on the Society of the Cincinnati

• George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1784, at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-01-02-0204 . 
• Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 November 1786, at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-10-02-0384 .
• See also Henry Knox to George Washington, 21 February 1784, at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-01-02-0103 .
• Additional information about the Cincinnati controversy during the early republic may be found here: https://founders.archives.gov/ancestor/GEWN-04-01-02-0236 .
• Society of the Cincinnati, https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org , accessed 10 Mar., 2023.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, https://www.dar.org , accessed 10 Mar., 2023.
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, https://www.sar.org , accessed 10 Mar., 2023.
• Size of Mount Vernon, rounded up from about 7,600 acres, from https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/growth-of-mount-vernon/ , accessed 9 Mar., 2023.

Versailles’ Alternate Universe

• Most of this information comes from Warren H. Lewis, The Splendid Century (Prospect Heights: IL: Waveland Press, 1953).

Religious justification of Divine Right: See

• Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, “On Divine Right” in Walter D,. Ward and Denis Gainty, Sources of World Societies, Vol. 2: Since 1450 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012), 32–25.

Audio Resources from freesound.org

• Excerpts from a file of background sounds from a department of motor vehicles waiting area (yes, that’s really what the background noise came from!): https://freesound.org/people/Airborne80/sounds/529835/
• Buzzing light noise: https://freesound.org/people/an_tony/sounds/218725/ . I cropped this file into tiny pieces in order to make the flickering sound.