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Category Archives: American Culture
not half bad
Another year, another Thanksgiving. Here’s President Grant’s 1871 Proclamation: THANKSGIVING DAY 1871 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION The process of the seasons has again enabled the husbandman to garner the fruits of successful … Continue reading
sound retreat
From the March 18, 1871 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE SOLDIERS’ HOME. ON one of the most beautiful sites in the neighborhood of Washington stands an edifice of singular attractiveness, known as “The Soldiers’ Home,” of which we give a … Continue reading
the three exemptions
Apparently 150 years ago the United States was free from pestilence and civil strife: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it behooves a people sensible of their dependence on the Almighty publicly and collectively … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, American Culture, American Society, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Benjamin Franklin Butler, Charleston, Grace Church (Charleston), Lee Monument (Richmond), Pilgrims, Puritans, Robert E. Lee, South Carolina, Thanksgiving, The Rev. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1855-1898), Ulysses S. Grant
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virtual vacation
Apparently some people weren’t venturing too far from home 150 years ago. What they might have been missing: I’m so old I sort of remember when they turned off the American Falls when I was going to school. As it … Continue reading
lapping it up
Here’s a man that might have fit right in with Stonewall Jackson’s foot cavalry – except that he hailed from north of Mason-Dixon. From Harper’s Weekly June 11, 1870: WESTON, THE PEDESTRIAN. WE give on this page a portrait of … Continue reading
Christmas Wonder
Way back in its August 14, 1869 issue, Harper’s Weekly profiled a famous American man of letters: HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Now that LONGFELLOW — the most popular of American poets — is in England, the question is naturally asked, What … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, Aftermath, American Culture
Tagged "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day", Charles A. Beard, Charles Appleton Longfellow, Christmas, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emma Goldman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mary Hansen, Mary Ritter Beard, Mine Run Campaign, New York Foundling Hospital, Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon
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world’s blessing?
On the day after Thanksgiving in 1869 The New-York Times devoted its entire front page to how the holiday had been observed the day before. This included over four columns (and counting) devoted to the services and sermons at various … Continue reading
“soil is trod by none but freemen”
In his first year as Commander-in-Chief, President Ulysses S. Grant followed the tradition begun by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 by calling for a national day of Thanksgiving on a Thursday in November. The new president opted for a slightly earlier … Continue reading
pre-columbian exposition
150 years ago an article considered a logical conclusion: either the ancestors of the humans Christopher Columbus found in the Americas auto-generated (a second Adam and Eve), or Mr. Columbus and crew weren’t the first people from the Old World … Continue reading
battle hymns
In its June 1, 1919 issue the New York Tribune commemorated the birth centenaries of two well-known Civil War-era Americans. ______________________________ According to Wikipedia, Julia Ward Howe was a poet, author, abolitionist, and advocate for women’s suffrage: She was inspired … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, American Culture, American Society, Monuments and Statues, World War I
Tagged 23rd New York Volunteer Cavalry, Abraham Lincoln, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Edith Cavell, Julia Ward Howe, Memorial (Decoration) Day, Walt Whitman
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