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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Month
Centennial self-control
150 years ago Americans were beginning to celebrate the United States Centennial. On April 19, 1875 large crowds were in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts to commemorate the battles that took place a century earlier. In an editorial in its May … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, American History, United States Centennial
Tagged Baltimore's Pratt Street riot, Daniel Chester French, Daniel Henry Chamberlain, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, George William Curtis, Henry Hudson Kitson, Joseph Roswell Hawley, Lexington and Concord, Richard Henry Dana Jr., United States Centennial, United States Centennial Commission
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a separate equality?
In 1870 Charles Sumner introduced a Civil Rights bill in the United States Senate. While on his deathbed in March 1874, Senator Sumner implored his onlookers to make sure the Civil Rights bill did not fail. That plea might have … Continue reading
comin’ to town?
It wasn’t exactly a diptych. The plates were separated by a couple pages of text. But in its December 26, 1874 issue Harper’s Weekly did publish two full-page images on a related theme: would Santa Claus, née Saint Nicholas, arrive … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, American Culture
Tagged Christmas, Santa Claus, St. Nicholas
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Fall River Fire
On September 19, 1874 a very destructive fire at a mill in Fall River, Massachusetts killed or injured many of the employees. In its October 10, 1874 issue Harper’s Weekly analyzed the fire and highlighted the heroism of a young … Continue reading
GAR reunion
Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson founded the Grand Army of the Republic on April 6, 1866 in Decatur Illinois. The GAR was a fraternal organization for Union soldiers, sailors, and marines who served during the Civil War. Its guiding principles were … Continue reading
house still divided?
150 years ago Harper’s Weekly published a brief bio of a member of the 43rd Congress. From its February 14, 1874 issue of : THE HON. ROBERT B. ELLIOTT. The South Carolina district that for many years sent JOHN C. … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, 150 Years Ago This Month, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alonzo Jacob Ransier, federalism, Forty-Third Congress, John C. Calhoun, Robert Brown Elliott, States' Rights, The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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four more
President Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated for his second term on March 4, 1873. From the March 22, 1873 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE SECOND INAUGURATION. THE second inauguration of ULYSSES S. GRANT as President of the United States was … Continue reading
with counsel like that
From the January 27, 1872 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE KU-KLUX. WE give on this page an illustration, engraved from a photograph from life, showing three members of a band of Mississippi Ku-Klux, who are now under indictment in that … Continue reading
prison break
From the August 18, 1871 edition of The New-York Times: SING SING AGAIN. __________ Daring Escape of Twelve Convicts from the Prison. __________ They are Carried off in a Tug, by Preconcerted Arrangement — The Engineer Suspected — One Arrrest … 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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