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minority majority president
160 years ago four different candidates divvied up the votes in the United States presidential election. Republican party candidate Abraham Lincoln won a plurality (about 40%) of the popular vote on November 6, 1860, but under the United States Constitution’s … Continue reading
‘demi-deity’ in bronze
Apparently some people politicized public monuments 150 years ago. From the October 8, 1870 issue of Punchinello (at Project Gutenberg): “SOLEMN SILENCE.” Perhaps very few persons—and especially very few members of the Republican party—are aware that a monument to ABRAHAM … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Monuments and Statues
Tagged 7th Regiment New York State Militia, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Kirke Brown, John Quincy Adams Ward, Lake Charles Louisiana, monuments and statues, The South's Defenders Memorial Monument, Union League Club, Union Square (New York City)
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define citizen
The magic number was .75, or at least that was the magic constant and had been since the U.S. federal constitution was promulgated in 1788. According to Article 5 of the Constitution, a proposed amendment that has been approved by … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, American History, The election of 1920
Tagged Alice Paul, Bainbridge Colby, female suffrage, Fourteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution, Henry Rogers Selden, James Middleton Cox, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Noah Webster, Susan B. Anthony, The election of 1920, Ward Hunt, Warren Gamaliel Harding
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peanut prophecy
From the July 16, 1870 issue of Harper’s Weekly: PEA-NUTS. OUR illustration on this page represents a scene which is perfectly familiar to those who have visited our Southern cities; and we dare say some of our readers who have … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged Alfred Howe Terry, Bowery Theatre, food bias, George Washington Carver, Georgia, Hôtel de Bavière, John Bankhead Magruder, Ku Klux Klan, peanuts, Savannah Georgia, Thaddeus Stevens
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reading the reasons
On July 2, 1776 the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia voted for independence from Great Britain. On July 4th the Congress agreed to the words in the written Declaration. July 8th was a “great day of celebration” in Philadelphia as … Continue reading
“Eighty-odd years since …”
The Fourth of July 1863 was a glad day for the Union during the American Civil War. Rebels surrendered Vicksburg, Mississippi to Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant, and that evening the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began to … Continue reading
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
floral tributes
From the May 31, 1870 issue of The New-York Times. Except the day on which is celebrated the independence of these United States, there is no day that calls out the patriotic feelings of our people more than “Memorial Day.” … Continue reading
