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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago
down with dramshops
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been aware of the saying, “If March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb” (and I thought vice versa, but that seems to return a lot fewer search results). … Continue reading
long career, short retirement
When the recently-launched (January) USS Richmond departed for the Mediterranean on October 13, 1860, its namesake was the capital of one of the United States, albeit one of the original thirteen – Virginia, the Old Dominion. When the ship returned … Continue reading
ebony and ivory
According to Wikipedia, Mississippi “was readmitted to the Union on January 11, 1870, and its representatives and senators were seated in Congress on February 23, 1870.”[*the dates are questionable] Although both new senators were Republicans and non-native Mississipians, one was … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, 150 Years Ago This Month, 150 Years Ago This Week, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged Adelbert Ames, Charles Sumner, Eugene Casserly, Fifteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution, George Vickers (U.S. Senator from Maryland), Hiram Rhodes Revels, John Roy Lynch, Mississippi, Natchez Mississippi
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the golden character
According to documentation at Project Gutenberg, President Ulysses S. Grant sent his first annual message to Congress when it reconvened early in December 1869. It was a long report; overall things seemed pretty peaceable. Reconstruction in the Southern states was … 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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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
going way back
150 years ago Harper’s Weekly noticed some Civil War-related items that were associated with earlier times in American history. From its August 23, 1869 issue: THE AMERICAN TRIUMVIRATE. A MEDALLION has been recently published by W. MILLER & Co., Artists … Continue reading
under the influence
150 years ago a newspaper doubted the truth of what it called a “verdict of Science” regarding earth’s next-door neighbor. From Harper’s Weekly May 22, 1869: THE MOON’S INFLUENCE WHATEVER be the influence exercised upon the earth by the varying … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, Technology
Tagged Apollo 11, Galileo Galilei, Luigi Palmieri, the moon, the telescope
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Hayti bound
From the May 1, 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly: EBENEZER D. BASSETT. Very fitly a colored man of the highest eminence has been appointed Minister from this country to Hayti. Mr. BASSETT, whose portrait we give on page 285, is … Continue reading
