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19C Native American Women by American artist Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Alfred Jacob Miller (American artist, 1810-1874) Group of Indian Mother and ChildrenGroup of Indian Mother and Children"The sketch represents a Dacotah Mother fondling a papoose, with a little dusky...
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Birth Control & Condoms in 18C-19C America
Birth control has existed at least since the Egyptian era, when people created their own barrier methods or suppository mixtures made of natural elements like honey or seaweed. It is known that around...
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Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War, & Memorial Day
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in...
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Harper's Weekly looks at Memorial Day
Decorating 3,000 Graves of Civil War casualties at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York from Harper's Weekley Charles S. Reinhart Illustration, Harper's Weekly June 4, 1870 Floral Tribute to the...
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Thomas Nast (1840-1902) looks at Memorial Day
Thomas Nast (1840-1902) Harpers Weekley Decoration Day, May 30, 1871 Thomas Nast (1840-1902) in Harpers WeekleyThomas Nast (1840-1902) in Harpers Weekley
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Property taxes & voting rights - Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & Julia...
Born today in 1797, Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & her sister Julia Evelina Smith, (1792-1886). The sisters were American suffragists who relentlessly protested for their property & voting...
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Pro-slavery writer Caroline Lee Whiting Heintz 1800-1856
Born today in 1800 – Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz, American author, known for opposing the abolitionist movement & her rebuttal to Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the pro-slavery novel The Planter’s Northern...
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Photo Archives - African American Ladies & the Language of the Victorian Parasol
Apparently Victorian ladies also understood the language of the parasol.Alvan S. Harper (1847-1911) Tallahassee c 1884 State Library and Archives of FloridaIf the lady touched the tip of the parasol to...
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On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland, age 49, married Frances...
.The early Cleveland White House was a bachelor’s household; the president worked long hours and rarely entertained. Rose Cleveland, the president’s sister, acted as first lady, managed the affairs of...
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1884 Grover Cleveland & 19C Politics of Personal Destruction
Grover Cleveland was rumored to have had a few skeletons in his closet, or at least there were a lot of tales during his first presidential campaign. He was accused of consorting with prostitutes, and...
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Born a Slave - Stagecoach Mary Fields" 1st Black Woman in US Postal Service
Mary Fields, born in 1832, in Hickman County, Tennessee, was born a slave, grew up an orphan, never married or had children. She was owned by Dr. Elijah Dunn & grew up on his family farm, where she...
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4th of July - 1st Celebration at the White House
The First Fourth of July Celebration at the President’s HouseThomas Jefferson by Charles Peale PolkAlthough John Adams was the first president to occupy the executive mansion, it was Thomas Jefferson...
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Lady Liberty in 18th & Early 19th-Century America
.For the first 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Indpendence on the 4th of July, American women would present their appreciation of the nation's hard-won liberty as handiwork in the form...
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4th of July Celebrations in 19C America
This chronolgy offers a glimpse at how the 4th of July was celebrated in good times and bad in 19th-century America.1800- In New York, the first local advertisements for fireworks appear and at the...
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