History Buff Hats

You know the type. A 2018 poem in First Things remembers a father who stopped at every historical marker, "a need to know that drove us nuts and slowed our progress toward the lake": the Battle of the Washita, the birthplace of Will Rogers, the crumbling shoulder of old Route 66. On the CivilWarTalk forum, members swap stories of pulling over to read and photograph markers, and of scaring passengers with hard braking and sudden U-turns. A Freeman Journal column remembers a dad huddled in front of the TV with his four sons, following Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Sergeant Chip Saunders through one battle after another. Know Your Meme notes that history memes often revolve around World War II, and r/HistoryMemes passed 2.7 million members in 2021. These hats are written for that person. HISTORY BUFF and HISTORY TEACHER are the plain badges and WWII NERD is the flag. WARNING MAY START TALKING ABOUT HISTORY and HISTORY DON'T MAKE ME REPEAT MYSELF are phrases already selling on Etsy shirts and TeePublic hats. The rest go after the habits: the marker that demands a stop, the vacation that turns into a battlefield tour, the documentary nap, the tea of 1773 spilled as gossip, and Rome, every day. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. I FALL ASLEEP TO WORLD WAR II DOCUMENTARIES and HISTORICAL MARKER AHEAD I'M PULLING OVER each get a second colorway.