Tag Archives: American Revolution

“The toast is, “Freedom’s favorite son,
Health, peace, and joy to Washington!”

A detailed history of New York City’s Evacuation Day, a former holiday that landed on November 25 and was second only to Independence Day in NYC’s patriotic pantheon.

Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.

Re-printing a British officer’s account of his 1827-28 visit to Benjamin Franklin’s modest grave site.

A (less) famous portrait of George Washington as President in Masonic regalia.

“To reaffirm and reestablish those old theories and principles which time and the unerring logic of events have demonstrated to be sound.”

〜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〜

“And this is Washington’s glory, / A steadfast soul and true, / Who stood for his country’s honor / When his country’s days were few.”

〜Only he who has much can lose much〜