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Tag Archives: John Adams
What We’ve Learned: Pondering Usable History
If but for a missing license plate, state police might not have caught Timothy McVeigh, or at least not soon after the crime. At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Lincoln, Memory, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, American Terrorist, French Revolution, John Adams, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassination, Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City National Memorial, sic semper tyrannis, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy McVeigh, usable history, what-we've-learned-since-the-sesquiscentennial
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But I HATE Cranberries!
‘Tis the season to try and figure out how to make everyone happy, including the Civil Warriors on the list. I have no idea how to fry a turkey, blacken one, or even how to roast one over a campfire. … Continue reading
“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
