Thursday, July 4, 2024

July 4th with Earliest Presidents - George Washington & John Adams

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1789- George Washington is in New York and is ill but writes a letter to the New York State's Society of the Cinncinatti letting that ...

July 4th 1801 with President Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson by Charles Peale Polk The White House Historical Association tells us that although John Adams was the first president...

July 4th - Some Unexpected 19C Results

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1837 Cartoon of a 4th of July celebration This chronology offers a glimpse at how The 4th of July was celebrated with sometimes tragic resul...

USA Bill of Rights - Amendments to the US Constitution

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 On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Con...

USA Constitution - What They Wrote & Signed - Finding a way to make it work...

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Howard Chandler Christy's Conxtitution Independence Hall in Philadelphia September 17, 1787 We the People of the United States, in Order...

USA Declaration of Independence - What They Wrote & Signed

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Declaration of Independence (1819) by John Trumbull  (1756-1843) painter & military officer   Unanimous Declaration of the 13 United Sta...

July 4th in a Small 19C Midwestern Town Celebrating The Declaration of Independence

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Evansville, Wisconsin. 104 West Main  High Victorian Gothic The home of Dr. John M. Evans (1819-1903), the city’s first physician, first po...

Mary Katharine Goddard, the Woman who Promoted the Declaration of Independence

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An illustration of Mary Goddard (Brown Library) Mary Katharine Goddard (1738-1816), likely the United States’ first woman employee, this new...