Historia Obscura | Aya Katz | Activity https://historiaobscura.com/members/aya-katz/activity/ Activity feed for Aya Katz. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:46:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d4b55e39b73ee0f6fd87700d966de334 Aya Katz wrote a new post https://historiaobscura.com/?p=9087 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:46:55 +0000 The Effect of the Changing Laws Concerning Privateering on the Career of Jean Laffite Aya Katz Note: This article was first published in the Laffite Society Chronicles in 2014 Jean Laffite, the privateer “bos” of […]

]]> 0 9cbefbb49172b400dbc78b181fd4c146 Aya Katz wrote a new post https://historiaobscura.com/?p=9075 Sun, 31 May 2026 15:12:29 +0000 Remembering Pam Keyes: the woman who knew Jean Laffite When I was writing my novel Theodosia and the Pirates, I was reading The Journal of Jean Laffite and trying to reconcile it with an 1823 obituary […]

]]> 0 2743176214fcb0ad1414a865360fd861 Aya Katz commented on the post, The Letter That Tried to Scuttle the Baratarians' Pardon http://www.historiaobscura.com/the-letter-that-tried-to-scuttle-the-baratarians-pardon/#comment-6062 Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:50:37 +0000 Excellent article! I think that there are two points that Poindexter entirely missed: 1) the Barararians were not pirates and 2) they could not have been allowed to serve in the Battle of New Orleans had the […]

]]> 7a7360b45bd397c6944ea7c6c2e0e385 Aya Katz commented on the post, The Last Battle of Chalmette http://www.historiaobscura.com/the-last-battle-of-chalmette/#comment-5007 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:22:56 +0000 This was a very enjoyable read, giving a glimpse into the politics of the day. I found it especially amusing that Story felt that anyone opposing his plan might be an “alien-hearted American.” Did he perhaps mean […]

]]> 3426f4c0e653e8475ec088f9d3a52e27 Aya Katz commented on the post, Eyewitness Report of Jean Laffite at Chalmette Battlefield http://www.historiaobscura.com/eyewitness-report-of-jean-laffite-at-chalmette-battlefield/#comment-4749 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:51:02 +0000 I’m glad you found this proof from a contemporary who was there. It should take care of any doubts anyone may have entertained during the current spate of revisionism. It also fits in with what the Journal of Jean […]

]]> 838befb03b45adf9b10a0d9e1280ca0b Aya Katz commented on the post, Andrew Jackson's Fine and the Place of Martial Law in American Politics http://www.historiaobscura.com/andrew-jacksons-fine-and-the-place-of-martial-law-in-american-politics/#comment-4384 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:11:47 +0000 That’s an interesting observation. So from the standpoint of a disinformation campaign it worked.

]]> af15e4710e03bd9540b40087e5f70fb0 Aya Katz commented on the post, Andrew Jackson's Fine and the Place of Martial Law in American Politics http://www.historiaobscura.com/andrew-jacksons-fine-and-the-place-of-martial-law-in-american-politics/#comment-4382 Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:41:00 +0000 Thanks, Pam, for providing the extra information of why it was that the entry of spies into the city could not be prevented by the imposition of martial law. The flints and powder provided by the Laffites were […]

]]> cc53dc2528e0654d66b0eab929f7c192 Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/andrew-jacksons-fine-and-the-place-of-martial-law-in-american-politics/ Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:13:17 +0000 Thumbnail 

Andrew Jackson resented mightily the fine imposed on him by Judge Dominick Hall in New Orleans in 1815 for contempt of court. At the very end of his life, with death approaching, Jackson campaigned for […]

]]> aa0247bb373bd7d9974b9bca50b5605f Aya Katz commented on the post, The Aurora Editor Snipes at Britain, Post War of 1812 http://www.historiaobscura.com/the-aurora-editor-snipes-at-britain-post-war-of-1812/#comment-3715 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:03:41 +0000 This is quite interesting. The phrasing “the savage, who had never known the restraints of civilized life. and the pirate, who had broken the bonds of society, were alike the subjects of British conciliation” […]

]]> d8f03aca30aeeb6b114c79606d44e199 Aya Katz commented on the post, Jean Laffite and the Treaty of Ghent -- Satirical Editorial of 1814 http://www.historiaobscura.com/jean-laffite-and-the-treaty-of-ghent_a-satirical-editorial-of-1814/#comment-3618 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:52:39 +0000 This is very interesting, indeed! Does this mean that the general terms of the Treaty of Ghent were already known to the editors of the Aurora in November 1814, when it was only just signed December 24, 1814? In […]

]]> 8cd3818896726e7bad64dd0fa5752dd1 Aya Katz commented on the post, The First Battle of New Orleans Poem http://www.historiaobscura.com/the-first-battle-of-new-orleans-poem/#comment-3605 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:40:48 +0000 It is a grand poem, but no mention of the Baratarians and Laffite?

]]> 8bb4cad82092a1248810337d6789b631 Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/governor-joseph-alstons-record-in-the-war-of-1812/ Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:20:09 +0000  

Joseph Alston was born in 1779 to a wealthy family in South Carolina. He attended the College of New Jersey, which was later renamed Princeton, but he never graduated. He studied law and was admitted to […]

]]> ce2db955f9e0969ea8c67ba044ae70a3 Aya Katz commented on the post, Commemoration of a Hero: Jean Laffite and the Battle of New Orleans http://www.historiaobscura.com/commemoration-of-a-hero-jean-laffite-and-the-battle-of-new-orleans/#comment-2213 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:54:43 +0000 Why anyone like Pickles would have a motive to discredit Jean Laffite is beyond me, unless it is to make a name for himself as a historical revisionist. Unfortunately, in the past it was not the British, but […]

]]> 4ca7795064344aa09ba9d8245897b86b Aya Katz commented on the post, The Meaning of Treason: United States v. Aaron Burr http://www.historiaobscura.com/the-meaning-of-treason-united-states-v-aaron-burr/#comment-2163 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 15:36:46 +0000 Yes, it is easy to get confused about what treason actually consists of, Pam, because everyone seems to have some preconceived notions of what it ought to be, many of which are like the English common law […]

]]> 0398d08dcf13f7df377a44dcdbf8f9ee Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=8418 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:02:31 +0000 The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1941) merged into the Second World War following the attack on Pearl Harbor. After that, historians refer to the continued war in China against Japan as part of  the Pacific […]

]]> c01086bab5d8d6d174e5dffa35ec4e1e Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=5268 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:03:01 +0000 According to The Journal of Jean Laffite, the famed privateer was the father of five children. He was married when he was seventeen to Christina Levine who bore him two sons and a daughter in close succession: […]

]]> 7f8a83c1cf3d7334a38b48b39ee5fef2 Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=5242 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:33:49 +0000 People do not usually remember Aaron Burr as a father. They remember perhaps that he was the third vice president of the United States. They remember, if anything, that he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. They […]

]]> 3b9658f9fc36f55aabfd2ff69af083ee Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=4385 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:34:02 +0000 She was the posthumous only child of Theodosius Bartow and Anne Stillwell Bartow. Named after her father, she bequeathed her given name, which she got from a father she never met,  to a daughter that she left […]

]]> ce13a2ffc1965822c4bf047db200289d Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=2701 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:59:14 +0000 She was the daughter of the famous theologian, Jonathan Edwards, and the wife of the second President of Princeton University, but Esther  Edwards Burr is best known today as the mother of Aaron Burr, Jr., the t […]

]]> b461226dcb8b22492ad53e86fcae9446 Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=1585 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:48:13 +0000   Although the “Journal of Jean Laffite” was introduced to the public by John Andrechyne Laflin, a person with a shady past and a reputation as a forger, we cannot entirely discount his claim that there was some […]

]]> e68073f2ab22995f2bf9200397f4a893 Aya Katz wrote a new post http://www.historiaobscura.com/?p=1535 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:16:14 +0000 “The Journal of Jean Laffite” is a historical manuscript that surfaced in 1948 when John Andrechyne Laflin presented it to the Missouri Historical Society. He claimed that it was a journal kept by Jean Laffite […]

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