Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …
Category Archives: politics
“Vote First Or Die” by Eleri Mai Harris (GUEST POST)
Guest artist ELERI MAI HARRIS presents this outsider’s view of the long-running political phenomenon that is New Hampshire!
Colby 16: Visiting Family
1862: Colby talks politics with various branches of the family during his week at home…
Celebration Day – January 8th, 1829 (Henniker)
The people of Henniker party like it’s 1829…
Historic Handshake (Claremont, 1995)
In a way, this might be one of NH’s strangest Highway Historical Markers…
Sarah Josepha Hale on Thanksgiving (1864)
Hale reflects on the national holiday she helped create in the midst of Civil War. (Note her “peculiarly” 19th century conceptions of politics, gender, charity, & religion.)
Letter to Lincoln (1863)
Newport native Sarah Josepha Hale appeals to President Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, and instigates an official national holiday!
John Hale Statue (Concord)
John P. Hale was a radical anti-slavery Republican during the Civil War.
Daniel Webster on Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession
A career-defining speech on slavery and the constitution, given by NH native Daniel Webster to the US Senate on 7 March, 1850 …
Video: “John Weeks, 1911”
A sing-along music video from Big Paws Music, based on John Wingate Weeks‘ landmark legislation, the Weeks Act of 1911… ALSO SEE: The Weeks Act Comic! >>
“Your state motto is SO COOL!”
Let’s take a closer look at that little motto on our license plates…
Civic Ignorance
A comics discussion with former Supreme Court Justice David Souter…
