All posts tagged "founding fathers"
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8.3K1MassachusettsFrederick Douglass’ Fifth of July Speech Asks ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is the popular name of a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on the...
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7.2KPolitics and MilitaryIsrael Potter, Revolutionary POW, Hobnobs in Europe With a King and 2 Founding Fathers
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where he met King George III, Benjamin Franklin and...
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19.4K10Arts and LeisureJohn Trumbull Gets a Few Things Wrong in His Famous Declaration of Independence Painting
Ten years after the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull traveled the country in a carriage seeking out all...
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12.3K1New HampshireJosiah Bartlett, Founding Father, Gets Used to Wrongness
Dr. Josiah Bartlett saved his own life in the same spirit he signed the Declaration of Independence: by questioning authority. He was...
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8.2K1Arts and LeisureThe Faulkner Murals Come to Life in the National Archives
In 1933, a government building boom was on to lift the nation out of the Great Depression. The new National Archives building...
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15.1K3ConnecticutJohn Adams Has a Spa Day in 1771 – at Connecticut’s Fashionable Stafford Springs
The Revolutionary War disrupted the finances and ambitions of all the founding fathers, but none more than Dr. Joseph Warren and his...
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