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Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson
Descendants of Revolutionary Riders in the Civil War
Most Americans know the story of Paul Revere and William Dawes and their midnight ride on April 18-19, 1775, through the Massachusetts countryside (Revere’s role is better know than Dawes’). I would wager that most readers of this blog know … Continue reading
Posted in Revolutionary War, Ties to the War
Tagged 15th Kentucky Infantry, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Perryville, Charlottesville, Colonel Paul Joseph Revere, Edward Hutchison Revere, George Payne Jouett, Iron Brigade, Jack Jouett, Joseph Revere, Paul Joseph Revere, Paul Revere, Rufus Dawes, The Iron Brigade, Thomas Jefferson, William Dawes
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The Secession of Mississippi
January 9, 2020, is the 160th anniversary of the secession of Mississippi Named for war hero Andrew Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi, was founded in 1821 at the intersection of the Natchez Trace and the Pearl River. Jackson himself had come through … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Antebellum South, Economics, Politics, Primary Sources, Slavery
Tagged 160th Anniversary, Andrew Jackson, cotton, Declaration of Immediate Causes, Jackson Mississippi, John C. Calhoun, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Mississippi secession, Nullification, Ordinance of Secession, secession, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson
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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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BookChat with Lucas Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding
I was pleased to spend some time with a recently released book by historian Lucas E. Morel, author of Lincoln and the American Founding, part of the Concise Lincoln Library from Southern Illinois University Press (find out more about it … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Stephens, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Concise Lincoln Library, Cornerstone Speech, Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, George Washington, Gettysburg Address, Invisible Man, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Ellison, Roger B. Taney, SIUP, Southern Illinois University Press, Stephen Douglas, Thomas Jefferson
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Acts of violence against America
Acts of violence against America. That’s the context an exhibit panel challenged me to consider as I neared the end of the self-guided tour of the Sixth Floor Museum in the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Ties to the War
Tagged 9/11, Acts of Violence Against America, American Terrorist, Dealey Plaza, Doaksville, Ford's Theatre, H.S. Washburn, Jefferson Davis, JFK, JFK Assassination, Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City Combing Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Sixth Floor Museum, Stand Watie, The Vacant Chair, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant
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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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Do You Know George Wythe?
Down the street from the Governor’s Palace in Colonial Williamsburg sits a two-story brick structure. Living historians, in first-person, debate the road to the American Revolution. But, who was George Wythe?
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: Self-governance and “the field of knowledge”
The final part in a four-part series “The field of knowledge,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is the common prosperity of all mankind.” Jefferson’s words are inscribed in big bold letters in the entryway of Monticello’s visitor center. They’re written in architectural … Continue reading
