Tag Archives: This Day in History

A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

“You made a magnificent beginning; a grand consummation is within your easy reach. Do not let it slip.”

The first Veterans Day proclamation.

Lost in the Y2K talk was another feared computer bug which also wasn’t.

Romulus Augustulus or Julius Nepos? Moreover, does it matter which one is the rightful last Western Roman Emperor?

The golden eagles embroidered on Constantine XI’s shoes.

A look back at one of the worst fires in U.S. history – 114 years to the day.

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

“Squirming and crawling from place to place can do no good.” -Abraham Lincoln

Introducing then-President Warren G. Harding’s 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week.

〜Examining the story and text of George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation〜

〜The meaning of “perfect” in “a more perfect union”〜