Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Our National Poetry Month Series 2025 Kicks Of With Cheryl Caesar’s Aftermath

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It’s National Poetry Month again! If you have been visiting here for a while, you know what that means—it’s our 14th annual round-up of da...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Mrs. Adams’ Famous Dear John Letter Laid Down Early Demands for the Ladies

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Abigail Adams, painted here as the first mistress of the Executive Mansion in Washington D.C., kept up a frequent and detailed corresponde...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

When Seward Bought the Ice Box from the Tsar for Pocket Change and Lint

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The Negotiators--Left to right: Robert S. Chew, Secretary of State William H. Seward, William Hunter, Russian chargé d'affaires Bodi...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Haven’t We Met Before? A Familiar Dutchman and Sweden’s Claim in America

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Peter Minuit, Former Governor of New Amsterdam, famous for purchasing Manhattan Island from the natives, led the Swedish colonization proj...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Horseshoe Bend Was Old Hickory’s Other 1814 Battle

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A diorama at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park depicts the members of the 39th Regiment of U.S. Infantry breaching the Creek fortifica...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Weeping for the Piles of Dead Women on a New York Street

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Police and bystanders watch helplessly as more victims jump to their deaths to escape the flames of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on the...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

The Lioness Who Roared Ida B. Wells Launched a War on Lynching

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                                                       Ida B. Wells, undaunted. The word to describe Ida B. Wells, who died on March 25, 19...