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Tag Archives: John Adams
“Independence Forever”–except in Vicksburg
To commemorate 1826’s July Fourth celebrations in Quincy, Massachusetts—which marked the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—the organizing committee approached the town’s elder statesman, John Adams. Adams, the single most important voice of the independence movement in the Second … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Holidays, Memory, Slavery
Tagged 4th of July, freedom, Independence Day, Independence Forever, John Adams, John Pemberton, July Fourth, liberty, secession, slavery, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg
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The Trust’s Teacher Institute: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
“There are, every now and then, rooms where it all happens,” said David Stewart. “If we have a sacred space in this country, that’s it. That’s the room to see.” Stewart, author of The Summer of 1787: The Men Who … Continue reading
Outraged about “media bias”? Read a Civil War newspaper.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard a lot of people complaining online in recent months about media bias. Regardless of whether they’re on the political left, right, or middle, I hear from so many people convinced that the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Newspapers
Tagged A Bohemian Brigade, Abraham Lincoln, All on Fire, Blue & Gray in Black and White, Brayton Harris, George Washington, Harold Holzer, Horace Greely, James Perry, John Adams, Lincoln, Lincoln and the Power of the Press, media bias, The Liberator, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Morris Chester, William Lloyd Garrison
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The Twilight’s Last Gleaming: Fireworks & Grand Illuminations
Reprinted from July 2, 2012: The day will be most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival . . . It ought to … Continue reading
Remembering John and Abigail (part two)
Part two of two “Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams wrote in a letter to her husband during his service in the Continental Congress. And those words are how we now most often remember her: “Remember the ladies.” And John did. … Continue reading
Remembering John and Abigail (part one)
Part one of two When Abigail Adams died in late October, 1818, her husband, John, brokenhearted, said, “I wish I could lie down beside her and die, too.” Today, the two are entombed side by side, along with their son … Continue reading
Jefferson: America’s Great Contradiction
The first in a four-part series I sit on a small wooden bench, little more than a plank with legs, really, beneath a tulip poplar whose wide branches umbrella me. The grass around the bench has been worn away by … Continue reading
Posted in Revolutionary War
Tagged Founders, Jefferson, Jefferson-Series, John Adams, Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson
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“Remember the Ladies”
March is Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the many contributions women have contributed in our country. At George Washington Birthplace National Monument, our social media policy for the month has been to highlight important women to … Continue reading
Class of 1842
When reading a biography of a Civil War general officer, the usual biographical sketch is: West Point Military Academy educated, Mexican War experience, volunteer organization command in early stages of the war, and then the rise through the general officer ranks. … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, A.P. Hill, Abner Doubleday, Army of the Potomac, Army of Virginia, Cadmus Wilcox, Chancellorsville, Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Corinth, D.H. Hill, Dabney Maury, Darius Couch, David R. Jones, Earl Van Dorn, Gabriel Rains, George H. Gordon, George McClellan, George Pickett, George Stoneman, George Sykes, George W. Rains, Gettysburg, Gustavus W. Smith, James Oakes, Jesse Reno, John Adams, John Foster, John Gibbon, John Newton, John Pope, Lafayette McLaws, Mansfield Lovell, Martin L. Smith, Napoleon Dana], Robert E. Lee, Samuel Maxey, Samuel Sturgis, Seth Williams, Stonewall Jackson, West Point Class of 1842, West Point Class of 1846, William Gardiner, William S. Rosecrans
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Bled From the Top: Confederate Officer Corps in the 1864 Tennessee Campaign
When the Army of Tennessee returned to its namesake Confederate state in November 1864, the chance to provide a glimmer of hope for the South in the West marched with it. By early December, that same force was decimated after … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Sesquicentennial
Tagged 1864, Arthur Manigault, Battle of Nashville, Battle of Spring Hill, Confedeate leadership western theater, Confederate, Daniel Govan, Edward Johnson, Francis Cockrell, Franklin-Nashville Campaign, George Washington Gordon, Henry Jackson, Hiram Granbury, Jacob Sharp, John Adams, John Bell Hood, John C. Brown, John C. Carter, Otto Strahl, Robert Bullock, Samuel French, States Rights Gist, Stephen Dill, Thomas Benton Smith, Thomas Scott, Zachariah Deas
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