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Posts by Month: July, 2008

• Thursday the 24th
• Edwin Stanton
  Edwin M. Stanton, nicknamed “Mars,” was Attorney General under President James Buchanan and Secretar...
• Wednesday the 23rd
• George Washington
  George Washington was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the age of 22 for his efforts in the Virgini...
• Tuesday the 22nd
• George Washington and Slavery
  George Washington was born February 22, 1732.  His parents were Augustine and Mary Ball Washing...
• Monday the 21st
• Charles Francis Adams
  Although not well known today, Charles Francis Adams was one of the most important figures in the hi...
• Sunday the 20th
• The Greatest Athlete in the World
  Jim Thorpe was born in 1888 to very modest beginnings. He was born half American Indian and was rais...
• Saturday the 19th
• Jim Thorpe: The Bright Path To Follow
  Jim Thorpe’s parents were of mixed ancestry. His mother was Native American Indian, from the Sauk an...
• Friday the 18th
• George H. Thomas
  George Henry Thomas (1816 – 1870) was born in Newsome’s Depot, Virginia.  His father died when ...
• Thursday the 17th
• Little Crow
  Born around 1810, he was the first born son of Charging Hawk.  He was called Little Crow due to...
• Wednesday the 16th
• Gideon Welles
  American Statesman, Gideon Welles (1802 – 1878) was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut.  At the a...
• Tuesday the 15th
• Jesse Owens
  Jesse Owens is remembered by many as one of the greatest track athletes of all time.  His perfo...
• Monday the 14th
• Jim Thorpe - The Man, The Myth, The Legend
  James Francis Thorpe was arguably the greatest athlete of the twentieth century. Thorpe is considere...
• Sunday the 13th
• The Implementation Of Taxes
  In the early history of the United States very few taxes were in place. The government was supported...
• Saturday the 12th
• Trail of Tears
  By the early 1800s, the Cherokee Indians of the southeastern US had assimilated many of the European...
• Friday the 11th
• Salmon P. Chase
  Salmon P. Chase, born in 1808 in New Hampshire, was raised by his uncle in Ohio. He graduated from D...
• Thursday the 10th
• A Record That May Never Be Broken
  Otto Graham was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1965 which was the first yea...
• Wednesday the 9th
• Leader Of A Confederacy
  His name was Wahunsenacawh, otherwise known as Powhatan.  He inherited an empire of six Indian ...
• Tuesday the 8th
• Francis Marion, “Swamp Fox”
  Francis Marion was born near Georgetown, South Carolina in 1732. He was educated in local country sc...
• Monday the 7th
• The dilemma of Native American Tribes at the Outbreak of U.S. Civil War
  The work of modern day scholars and historians is helping to dispel two commonly held myths about th...
• Sunday the 6th
• Petalesharro, the Reformer
  Petalesharro, sometimes spelled Petalasharo or Petalesharo, was a Pawnee Indian, whose father was ch...
• Saturday the 5th
• Andrew Johnson
  “An unfortunate Democratic President” was the 17th President of the United States, and became Presid...
• Friday the 4th
• Andrew Johnson: A Wartime Statesman
  Andrew Johnson fought for black suffrage and to preserve the union of the United States during the C...
• Thursday the 3rd
• Daniel Webster, Early Statesman and Orator
  Daniel Webster, born in Salisbury, NH in 1782, was a predominant Nationalist of the Ante-Bellum peri...
• Wednesday the 2nd
• “Broken Heart”
  “Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain,” the name bestowed the man best known for his resistance of the ...
• Tuesday the 1st
• Salmon Chase
  Salmon Chase was born on January 13, 1808 in Cornish, New Hampshire.  He was raised by an uncle...