Tag: congress

• Of One Blood All Nations (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1838: Sandwich petitions Congress to end the “nefarious traffic in slaves” in the District of Columbia…

  Marek

  6 November, 2013

  1830s, government, NH history, religion, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical

  abolition, congress, petition, sandwich, slavery

• 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!

  Marek

  18 November, 2012

  1860s, Civil War, Newport, politics, Sarah Josepha Hale, SOURCE=Library of Congress

  Abraham Lincoln, congress, hale, Lincoln, Sarah Joseph, Thanksgiving

• 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…

  Marek

  5 October, 2012

  1910s, constitution, environment, forestry, John Wingate Weeks, Lancaster, legislative branch, mills, politics, video, White Mountains

  1911, congress, forestry, John Weeks, john wingate weeks, law, nh, us, water, watersheds, Weeks Act

• 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]

  Marek

  21 August, 2012

  Civil War, education, Freedmen, Henniker, NH people, NH places, politics

  civil war, congress, education, freedmen’s schools, Henniker, James WIllis Patterson, library