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The blog will consist of posts on places, people, events and writings related to American History. Information is derived from a variety of historical sources
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"Compare the free regions of the middle states, where a rich and noble cultivation marks the prosperity and happiness of the people, with...
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Francis Bacon “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
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“Knowing as we do that the foundation of national greatness can be laid only in the industry, the integrity and the spiritual elevation...
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“You are not all going to die. Only 2% of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time,...
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“Whatever state among us shall make piety and virtue the standard of public honor will enjoy the greatest inward peace, the greatest...
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"The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they...
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Jul 311 min read
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“You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United...
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Jul 301 min read
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ...
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Jul 291 min read
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"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe...
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Jul 281 min read
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“Don’t sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” Madam C.J. Walker , the first American woman to become a...
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Jul 241 min read
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"You know my heart wishes for peace upon terms of security and justice to America. But war, anything, is preferable to a surrender of our...
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Jul 231 min read
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Abigail Adams "But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken — and...
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Jul 211 min read
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes." Attributed to Voltaire
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Jul 181 min read
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"The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An...
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Jul 91 min read
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Touro Synagogue National Historic Site "May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the...
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Jul 81 min read
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Harry S. Truman - 33rd US President "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable...
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Jul 71 min read
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David McCullough, American Historian “History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
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Jul 61 min read
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
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Jul 41 min read
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“As I believe the voice of my constituents and all sensible and honest men is in favor of independence, and as my own judgment concurs...
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Jul 21 min read
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Sallie Ann Corbett Pickett "Down the slope into the smoke-filled valley the devoted men followed him as he rode in advance upon his...
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Jul 12 min read
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