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  1. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A History of Detroit's City Seal and Flag

    Date(s): June 30, 1907 Location: Wayne, Michigan Tag(s): Detroit city hall, emblem, founding of Detroit, Detroit, Flag 

    The seal of the City of Detroit was adopted in 1827 when Johnathan Kearsley was the mayor and John Quincy Adams was president of the United States of America. Michigan was not yet a state, officially initiated in 1837. The seal features two female figures, one representing Detroit when it burned down in 1803 and the other representing the modern day Detroit that rose from the ashes and rebuilding and...

  2. Northern Democrats Rally Around the Union Flag

    Date(s): April 18, 1861 Location: CENTRE, Pennsylvania, CHARLESTON, South Carolina Tag(s): Civil War, Republicans, Fort Sumter, Flag, Democrats 

    Upon the end of the siege on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, The Democratic Watchman of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania reflected a disappointment with the Lincoln Administration, but gave support for the Union war cause. The Union lost the fort for the remainder of the war during the first battle of the American Civil War, but the newspaper was more concerned with the fact that the North was going...