This Day (Go West, Young Hayseed Edition)
On this day in 1861, refugee delegates from Virginia’s secession convention assembled (for something like the third time since June) in Wheeling, this time to draft a constitution for what… Read More»
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The Devil Went Down to Monticello
The above video—produced by the web textbook company Soomo Publishing—features a weirdly homoerotic take on George III and a kind of Charlie Daniels Band–meets–Green Day take on Thomas Jefferson.… Read More»
Triumph
From A Popular History of the United States by William Cullen Bryant and Sydney Howard Gray, vol. 1 (1888) This is one in a series of posts that pays homage… Read More»
In the Beginning
From A School History of the United States by William H. Mace; illustrated by Homer W. Colby, H. W. Dietzler, and Denman Fink (1904). This is one in a series… Read More»
This Day (Our “Bright” Future Edition)
On this day in 1902, Virginia’s new constitution became law, disenfranchising thousands of poor whites and nearly eliminating the state’s African American electorate. It replaced Virginia’s 1869 Reconstruction-era constitution, which… Read More»
Nice Ring!
From Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1902) This is one in a series of posts that pays homage to The Art of Google Books.
U.S. Map #4
From A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther Baker Steele (1885) This is one in a series of posts that pays homage to The Art of… Read More»
Virginia Maps #3 and #4
From Virginia: A History of the People by John Esten Cooke (1911); and Virginia: A History of the People by John Esten Cooke (1888) This is one in a series… Read More»
Project Runway
From A History of the United States and Its People for the Use of Schools by Edward Eggleston (1888) This is one in a series of posts that pays homage to The… Read More»
Hail, Columbia
From A Child’s history of the United States by John Gilmary Shea (1872) This is one in a series of posts that pays homage to The Art of Google Books.
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