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  1. From Front Porch to North Portico
    date June, 1920 to November, 1920map Marion, Ohiotags Women, Politics

    Even though most historians today view Warren G. Harding as one of the worst U.S. presidents, he was a very modern and innovative thinker even before becoming president.  His presidential campaign in 1920 is a prime example of this.  What historically has been called his “front porch” campaign captured the imagination of the public.  It was the first campaign to be heavily covered by the press,...

  2. Top Dog at the White House
    date March 5, 1921map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Politics, Arts/Leisure

    Though there were many presidential pets before him, Laddie Boy was the first celebrity White House pet.  Few people realize that Laddie Boy, President Warren G. Harding’s Airedale terrier, was the first to receive regular coverage from newspaper reporters. Presidential pets had to receive the same scrutiny as their distinguished masters.  Whether providing companionship or humanizing the President’s...

  3. Native American Education Improves Under U.S. Government
    date 1976map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Education, Native-Americans

    The Third Annual Report to the Congress of the United States outlined the needs, concerns, funding, and progresses of the Indian educational system set forth by the government. The National Advisory Council on Indian Education created this report in 1976 in Washington, D.C. The president of the United States appointed this council in order to assist the 570 native groups affected by the regulations...

  4. Three Tribes Confederate for Peace
    date October 21, 1867map SHAWNEE, Kansastags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Civil Rights, Native-Americans

    The chiefs and headmen of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian tribes met with the United States commissioners, such as Nathaniel G. Taylor and William S. Harney, in Kansas to seal their tribes’ fate in America on October 21, 1867. The United States government referred to the Treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache as a peace treaty, but in reality it forced the tribes to conform to the wills...

  5. The Murder of Senator Benjamin Franklin Randolph
    date October 17, 1868map ORANGEBURG, South Carolinatags hate, Reconstruction, Crime, Politics

    Benjamin Franklin Randolph was born a freeman in Kentucky in 1820.  He graduated from Oberlin College and became an ordained minister.  After college, he joined the U.S. Colored Troops and served as a chaplain.  B.F. Randolph found himself in South Carolina after the war, where he became a prominent participant in local politics.  In 1868, Randolph was elected to the Senate for the Orangeburg County...

  6. Sumner Takes Command of The Department of The Pacific
    date March 22, 1861 to April 28, 1861map SAN FRANCISCO, Californiatags War, Civil War, Military, Politics

    With hostilities breaking out between Confederate and Union forces in the east, a secessionist uprising in California was feared.  In command of the U.S. Army’s Department of The Pacific, was Col. Albert S. Johnston; an adopted Texan with questionable loyalties. Believing that Johnston posed a risk to Union control in California, General Winfield Scott dispatched Brigadier General E. V. Sumner to...

  7. California Opposes Slavery on Grounds of Social Idleness
    date May 12, 1848 to September 20, 1850map TERRITORY, Territorytags Politics, Slavery, Government

    By the late 1840s American feelings on slavery smoldered.  According to historian James McPherson, the southern states were pushing for a pro-slavery constitution in California, and western slavery not just as an abstraction, but as a legitimate southern goal.  As the debate raged in congress over the admittance of California as a free or slave state, the Californians in San Francisco had all but...

  8. National Women's Rights Convention: Maria Varney's letter emphasizing natural rights
    date October 20, 1850map FAIRFIELD, Connecticuttags women's rights, Politics

    On October 23, 1850 the first annual National Women’s Rights Convention commenced in Worcester Massachusetts. For two days more then a thousand women and men from eleven different states listened to speakers. The speakers emphasized the right to vote, to own property, to be admitted to higher education and to choose their occupation or profession. Newspaper reporters from all over attended, but the...

  9. The White League Assassinates in the Name Of the Democratic Party
    date November 3, 1880map EAST CARROLL, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, Law, Government, Politics

    A dispatch from Lake Providence, Louisiana has "left little doubt that Dr.Williams B. Jones, the editor of the Lake Providence (La.) Republican, who was foully assassinated at his home on the day after the election, was sent out of this world for the one reason that he was a...outspoken Republican". In Lake Providence's election Gen. FLoyd King, a White Leaguer, was chosen as the Democratic congressional...

  10. Knights of the White Camellia Opposed in Arkansas
    date December 19, 1868map CONWAY, Arkansastags Crime/Violence, Law, Government, Politics

    In December 1868 a report from Little Rock, Arkansas stated that "In the Legislature last night, Mr. Brooks introduced a bill requiring all persons to withdraw from the Knights of the White Camellia...within thirty days, under penalty of heavy fine and imprisonment...". Following this resolution the state declared martial law in Conway County, Arkansas as reported in the New York Times. The Knights...

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