Tag: congress
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Of One Blood All Nations (Sandwich, NH)
1838: Sandwich petitions Congress to end the “nefarious traffic in slaves” in the District of Columbia…
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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!
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Video: “John Weeks, 1911”
A sing-along music video based on the landmark Weeks Act of 1911… ALSO SEE: The Weeks Act Comic! >> DOWNLOAD:Printable 2-page PDF 2-page JPG version: SOURCE MATERIALS: Here are some of the primary sources that helped make this song & comic possible: The Weeks Act itself = I looked up the pages from the 1911 congressional…
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James Willis Patterson
Drawn from a portrait in the reading room at Tucker Free Library (Henniker, NH): Patterson taught school in New Hampshire, and later served as a Republican member of Congress during the Civil War, where he supported the establishment of Freedmen’s Schools in the South. [Also see James W. Patterson on Wikipedia]