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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Month
fake views?
In its July 3, 1869 issue Harper’s Weekly presented a couple iconic images from the American independence movement during the 1770’s. The incident Paul Revere depicted did not happen in 1775. The Boston Massacre “was a confrontation on March 5, … Continue reading
“Summer of Peace”
150 years ago this week a National Peace Jubilee was held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Coliseum, a temporary structure built especially for the Jubilee. In its May 22, 1869 issue Harper’s Weekly anticipated the big event: THE NATIONAL PEACE … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Boston, Carl Zerahn, Eben Tourjée, National Peace Jubilee, National Peace Jubilee 1869, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Sri Swami Satchidananda, Susan J. Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodstock 1969
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good question
Way back in its October 24, 1868 issue Harper’s Weekly seemed a bit miffed by a letter from Georgia, which asked a question: if universal suffrage for black men is such a good thing, why doesn’t the North adopt it? … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged black suffrage, Democratic-Republican Party, Erastus Root, Federalist Party, Fifteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution, James Kent, New York State, Reconstruction, state constitutions, suffrage, universal suffrage, voting rights
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cabinet kerfuffle
In its March 5, 1869 issue The New-York Times kept coverage of Ulysses S. Grant’s inaugural address off its front page, unlike the previous two inaugurations. The times were certainly different, relatively crisis-free. After all, in 1861 a couple weeks … Continue reading
nationalist reunion
From the January 9, 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE ARMY REUNION AT CHICAGO THE immense congregation of officers and soldiers assembled at Chicago on the 15th and 16th of December were representatives of our volunteer armies. Many were present … Continue reading
the velocipede revolution
The times they are a-modernizin’. Back in April 1868 an American periodical urged better preservation of historically important places. 150 years ago this month the same paper enthusiastically described a new device – a traveling machine. It wasn’t just the … Continue reading
dark deed in broad daylight
In mid-October 1868 The New-York Times reported that Benjamin F. Randolph, a black clergyman and Republican state legislator, was murdered in South Carolina. In its November 21, 1868 issue, Harper’s Weekly reprinted the report of a Charleston newspaper: MURDER OF … Continue reading
September surprise?
Democratic politician John Dix was a Union general during the Civil War and in 1868 was serving as American Minister to France. In early September he sent a letter to friend in New York City. Mr. Dix wanted to deny … Continue reading
rigging vigorously
150 years ago this month three New York City newspapers published reports of alleged voter fraud. It seems that the October 10, 1868 issue of Harper’s Weekly is saying that the legal process of naturalization was being corrupted by men … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged Benjamin B. Rosenberg, election rigging, John Thompson Hoffman, naturalization mill, New York City, Robert Murray U.S. Marshal, Tammany Hall, The election of 1868, vote fraud, William Magear "Boss" Tweed
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