This topical category is for articles and content that focus on U.S. history.
〜A 1923 Independence Day discourse on the American Mind〜
“For strong and deep / Is the might sweep / Of their love for Freedom’s cause.”
〜A guide on how to appease the Founding Fathers this Fourth of July〜
An 1897 promotional magazine snapshot and a look at two classic Kodak cameras.
An 1897 article on a revolution in paper boy technology.
Contemporaneous newspaper accounts of Anna Jarvis’s successful effort to make Mother’s Day a national holiday in the United States.
〜A contemporaneous portrait of an 1860 Lincoln miniature authored by the painter himself〜
“There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars.”
〜Join me in learning about one of the American masters of the miniature〜
〜A Wisconsin bee-keeper wins “lasting honor” for his efforts at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago〜
〜Only he who has much can lose much〜
〜Examining the story and text of George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation〜