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President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Day proclamation under the Constitution William D. Bailey The Founders Blog 11/22/2012 General Thanksgiving By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation City of New York, October 3, 1789 Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, […] November 22nd, 2012 | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony, Thanksgiving | Category: Founding Fathers, History, Massachusetts, Military, U.S. Civil War | Comments are closed
Adam Gault Vimeo 9/29/2010 Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo. Lincoln’s speech revisited. Read by Mitch Rapoport. Design and animation by Adam Gault and Stefanie Augustine. Sound design by Chris Villepigue | songloft.com Additional animation by Carlo Vega. CAJ note: A brief history of the address at Wikipedia. Update: More at Gulag Bound. […] November 19th, 2012 | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, slavery | Category: Pennsylvania, U.S. Civil War, Video | Comments are closed
William D. Bailey The Founders Blog 5/30/2012 Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. […] May 30th, 2012 | Tags: Arlington National Cemetery, Decoration Day, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, Veterans | Category: Military, U.S. Civil War | Comments are closed
Ann Coulter 4/18/2012 Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to push for the repeal of “stand your ground” laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC’S Karen Finney blamed “the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.”) This would be like demanding more funding for the General […] April 20th, 2012 | Tags: "Black Codes", Anti-Klan Act of 1871, Black Armed Guard, Chicago, Chief Justice Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, gun control, hypocrisy, Jesse Jackson, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Martin Luther King Jr, NRA, Rep. Frederica Wilson, Robert F. Williams, Trayvon Martin | Category: 2nd Amendment, Alabama, Books/media, Education, Florida, History, Illinois, Military, North Carolina, Politicians, Racism, U.S. Civil War | Comments are closed
William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 9/9/2011 Obama flubbed his history. Via Ed Morrissey, Obama inaccurately called Abraham Lincoln the founder of the Republican Party: Not true! Doesn’t Obama know history?… Read the rest at Legal Insurrection. Also at Legal Insurrection, Sarah Palin may be the one liberals have been waiting for …With Palin, liberals […] September 9th, 2011 | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Paul Revere, Republican Party | Category: Barack Obama, History, Media accountability, sarah palin, U.S. Civil War, Video | Comments are closed
14 April 2011 Abraham Lincoln Papers On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, “Our American Cousin,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford’s Theater that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone’s fiancee, […] April 14th, 2011 | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, assassination, John Wilkes Booth | Category: History, U.S. Civil War | Comments are closed
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