Happy Independence Day
On Monday July 1776, the Continental Congress began the debate on the resolution that Richard Henry Lee of Virginia had made on June 6th.
A final vote was taken the next day, July 2nd. It was passed even though South Carolina still wasn’t in favor of independence, but Edward Rutledge, who opposed independence and had [...]
The ‘Real’ Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Teach – Blackbeard
He originally served as a British privateer based in Jamaica. Privateers were privately owned ships hired by the British government to attack and plunder French and Spanish ships during the war. After the war he just continued. He stole a ship Queen Anne’s Revenge and set up a base in North Carolina. [...]
Making a Point During War
June 28, 1776.
Continental Congress was still nearly a week away from declaring the colonies independence from England. The Declaration of Independence wouldn’t be read in congress for two days. George Washington as Commander-in-chief felt that it was important to show those in his command that treason within his ranks would not be tolerated. [...]
He Threw the First Pitch – Just Not Baseball
Abner Doubleday was credited in 1907 by The Mills Commission that the game of baseball was invented in Cooperstown, New York by Abner Doubleday. This was a claim that was never made by him during his life, he died in 1893, and since then has been debunked by Baseball Historian.
Doubleday, who was born on [...]
He Was Being Progressive
Theodore Roosevelt’s hand picked successor William Howard Taft turned out to be not the President that Roosevelt had expected. So Roosevelt had a change of opinion and decided that he wanted to have another term as President and ran as a candidate for the Republican Party in 1912.
On June 22, 1912 at the Republican [...]
Lewis And Clark Expedition
Beginning in 1801 the United States began an effort to bring New Orleans, which had just changed hands from Spanish to French rule, into the United States. After nearly 2 years of negotiation the United States, who had been prepared to pay 10 Million dollars to the cash starved French discovered that the entire [...]
A House Divided
One of Abraham Lincoln’s best known speech came not when he was President, but two years before the 1860 election on June 16, 1858. During his campaign for US Senator for Illinois he delivered what is known as the House Divided Speech.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, [...]
The Would Be First Lady
The election of 1828 was not a pretty election. It was a rematch between the same candidates of the 1824 contest between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson felt he should have been the incumbent since he had received the most popular votes as well as Electoral votes. However none of [...]
Leading to Independence
How much do you actually know about what happened on and around July 4, 1776? We all know that July 4th is the birthday of the United States, but is it really? Events that lead up to the birth of the United States started with a Resolution by Richard Henry Lee, a representative to [...]
The Music of Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard
Depending upon one’s age will depend on how you remember the entertainment couple Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Most will know of them from the TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet one of the shows popular in early television. Others will know them as the father to Ricky Nelson, who also appeared on their [...]
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