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President Thomas Jefferson began holding White House Receptions for the...
White House Receptions -Thomas Jefferson began the tradition of receiving citizens at the White House, which was called The President's House before 1812, to celebrate the Fourth of July in 1801. The...
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President John Tyler & Turtle Soup on the 4th of July
Turtle Soup -William Henry Harrison died only a month after his inauguration in 1841, and John Tyler, who succeeded him, held a Fourth of July dinner that year that included turtle soup. A giant 300...
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President Zachary Taylor's 4th of July fatal tragedy
A Fatal Fourth -After participating in July 4 ceremonies at the Washington Monument in 1850, Zachary Taylor fell ill. He drank freely of ice water during the event and after reaching the White House...
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President Abraham Lincoln's July 4th celebration of African American groups &...
On July 4, 1864, Abraham Lincoln attended a fundraiser for African American schools & religious groups in the District of Columbia. He allowed the group to hold a festival on the south grounds of...
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Crowds mobbed Grover Cleveland & his very young bride Frances Folsom on July...
The Marine Band performed weekend summer concerts on the south grounds of the White House from June to September for many years. In 1886, Grover Cleveland and his new bride Frances Folsom made an...
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Letter from 17 year old Jennie McCleary, a witness to the Battle of Gettysburg
Letter published in Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, July 02, 1938. Reportedly Jennie was 17 years old at the time of the battle. She is writing to her sister Julia, who lives back home in Kittanning...
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A very quick & personal look at American Women fighting for the right to vote
I have noticed, while writing these blogs about the work of women in America beginning in the early 1700s, that I am particularly incensed that women did not get the right to vote in our democracy...
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Mary Ann M’Clintock 1800-1884
Mary Ann M’Clintock (1800-1884) was born to Quaker parents. She married Thomas M’Clintock, a druggist and fellow Quaker, in 1820, and they lived in Philadelphia for seventeen years. During that time...
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Jane Clothier Master Hunt 1812-1889
Jane Clothier Master Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 1812, the daughter of William and Mary Master. Her marriage to Richard Pell Hunt in November 1845 brought her to Waterloo...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, and for the next fifty years played a leadership role in the women's rights movement. Somewhat...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 - Solitude of Self - an address to US...
Solitude of SelfAddress Delivered by Mrs. Stanton before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, Monday, January 18, 1892 Reprinted from the Congressional RecordElizabeth Cady...
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Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches,...
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Lucy Stone 1818-1893
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights. She was born in Massachusetts. After she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, she began lecturing for the antislavery...
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"Sold South" - Baltimore City Slave Trade
Baltimore City Slave TradeThe Baltimore Sun 20 June 1999, by Scott ShaneE. Sachse's view of Baltimore City looking west from Calvert Street on Market Street c 1850.ON JULY 24, 1863, three weeks after...
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Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818-1894 & the real story of "bloomers"
Amelia Bloomer edited the first American newspaper for women, The Lily. It was issued from 1849 until 1853. The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were...
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Martha Coffin Wright 1806-1875
Martha Coffin Wright (1806-75) was the youngest of 8 children; her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott was the second oldest. Throughout her life Martha worked in reform alongside her sister Lucretia Mott....
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Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880
One of 8 children born to Quaker parents on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) dedicated her life to the goal of human equality. As a child Mott attended Nine...
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Report of the Woman's Rights Convention 1848 Seneca Falls, New York
Report of the Woman's Rights Convention 1848A Convention to discuss the SOCIAL, CIVIL, AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF WOMAN, was called by the Women of Seneca County, N.Y., and held at the village of...
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The Connection between the Women's Rights movement & the Anti-Slavery movement
Neither Ballots nor Bullets: The Contest for Civil Rights"Women can neither take the Ballot nor the Bullet . . .therefore to us, the right to petition is the one sacred right which we ought not to...
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