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Inauguration Day in Washington
With Inauguration Day just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to present our readers with antique prints of past inaugurations. DC is currently busy at work preparing for the great influx… more →
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152 Years Ago Today: Harper's Weekly Chronicles the 13th N.Y.S.M.'s March to War
wrote 1 week ago: The date was April 23, 1861. Fort Sumter had fallen to the South nine days earlier. Americans from M … more →
Propaganda
wrote 3 weeks ago: Propaganda in the most neutral sense means to disseminate or promote particular ideas. It is the del … more →
American Civil War: One Hundred Fifty Years Ago Today, April 5, 1863: "English Pirate Ship" Seized in Liverpool
wrote 1 month ago: On April 5, 1863, Britain seized the Confederate Raider “Alexandra” in Liverpool. She h … more →
Union Woes: Losing Men and Morale
wrote 2 months ago: In “The Most Dreadful Slaughter” by Rufus Dawes, Major Dawes recalls the heavy toll that … more →
1863 March 7: Capture of the Queen of the West and Other Naval Action
wrote 2 months ago: The following news items are from the March 7, 1863, issue of The Polk County Press. The Queen of t … more →
The Finest Wares: The Old Dominion Coffee Pot
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wrote 2 months ago: Since I began frequenting Harpers Ferry a few years ago, I’ve found an interest in items that … more →
Considering Freedmen's Schools & the AMA
wrote 3 months ago: While working through some primary sources recently, I came across an article in Harper’s Week … more →
The More Things Change...
wrote 3 months ago: It is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years – not in the lifetime of most men who re … more →
Inauguration Day in Washington
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wrote 4 months ago: With Inauguration Day just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to present our readers with … more →
Welcome to Wednesday
wrote 4 months ago: DID YOU KNOW… That Wednesday’s middle name is Friday. Wednesday Friday Addams. That ROCKS. A … more →
1863 January 14: Battle of Galveston
wrote 4 months ago: The other big war news in the January 14, 1863, issue of The Prescott Journal is about the battle wh … more →
Great German Composers, Harper's Weekly, 1870
wrote 4 months ago: Great German Composers, Harper’s Weekly, 1870 – Bach, Handel, von Weber, Schumann, Schub … more →
First Virginia Cavalry Halted after sketch by Alfred Waud
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wrote 4 months ago: This is how Alfred Waud’s field sketch appeared once the engravers at Harper’s Weekly ha … more →
Fat Suit —
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wrote 4 months ago: Well, we survived another War on Christmas, but the War on Santa rages on. As a strategic campaign w … more →
1862 December 25: Christmas 1862
wrote 4 months ago: The following articles are from The Polk County Press of several different dates. The two images ar … more →
Christmas in The Civil War
wrote 4 months ago: Above: Santa Claus by Thomas Nast (circa 1881). This is much the same image of Santa used 150 years … more →
Is Mark Twain captured as a Washington, DC newspaperman on the cover of Harper's Weekly [March 7, 1868]?
wrote 5 months ago: The image below is from the front cover of Harper’s Weekly, March 7, 1868. (It was used for th … more →
Great Gifts, FDR, and Lincoln
wrote 5 months ago: Great Gifts Just in time for the holidays, we’ve selected a gift-worthy group of historic documents, … more →
2012 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: Sports Fan
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wrote 5 months ago: A lover of all sports, they watch all the big games and follow their favorite teams with full devoti … more →
