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  1. 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...

  2. Advancing Culture: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
    date June, 1850 to 1850map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Politics, Modernization

    Current issues, events, and ideas were spread and divided among many American journals, newspapers, and periodicals, but in June of 1850 Harper & Brothers of New York sought to “remedy this evil” and provide all of this information in one place for anyone who wished to read it.  The firm introduced Harper’s New Monthly Magazine as the first general interest magazine in America.  They prefaced...

  3. Musical Patriotism of the Civil War
    date 1861map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Arts/Leisure, Civil War

    Two flags overlap on the cover of the Bonnie Blue Flag sheet music that has passed through many hands and sat atop many pianos in its lifetime.  The blue flag bearing a single star, given consideration as the Texas symbol of secession, and Harry Macarthy’s patriotic tune encompassed some of the southern sentiment at the start of the Civil War.  The song’s lyrics cried out to ban together brother’s...

  4. The Last Frontier:  The Adirondack Mountains in the Nineteenth Century
    date 1854map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Urban Society, Arts/Leisure

    The loss of untouched and pristine nature began in nineteenth century America in the age growing urbanization and industrialization, yet a few places remained, allowing Americans to discover themselves in nature.  An 1854 illustration in Richards’ American Scenery:  Illustrated called “Lake in the Adirondacks, New York” revealed that these places did still exist in the nineteenth century. ...

  5. Vogue:  Women’s Nineteenth Century Fashion
    date 1875map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Women, Arts/Leisure

    The changing role of nineteenth century women from a worker on the farm to a woman of society was reflected in fashion transformations, with fashion magazines that spoke directly to women, stating that “every lady loves it.”  Magazine stressed the novelty and desirability of the clothing pictured.  MME Demorest’s Illustrated Portfolio of the Fashions was a popular biannual women’s magazine,...

  6. Union Officers Diverted by Chess
    date March 1, 1864 to May 30, 1864map SPOTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Recreaction, camp-life, Arts/Leisure

    Just before heading into the Wilderness campaign, Colonel Martin T. McMahon competed against his aide in a game of Chess. Chess is an interpretation of the ancient Indian game of Chatarung. Involving two players, the game includes pieces that simulate battle formations and units with certain strengths and traits. Representing the generals of two armies, the game's relevance to warfare is obvious. Camp...

  7. Happy Times in Centerville Camp as the Confederate High Command Sing the South's Favorite Songs
    date January 12, 1862map ACCOMACK, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Song

    Confederate leader Robert E Lee once said, "I don't believe we can have an army without music," and reflecting this attitude, the high command of the Confederate forces joined in the jovial times of the 1862 Southern lifestyle. Observed by the future Brigadier General Moxley Sorrel, the then Captain and Chief-of-Staff to General Longstreet recounted a banquet put on by Longstreet and the many songs...

  8. Post-Colonial Art Development
    date 1790 to 1800map New York, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Art development

    "They [Americans] are depreciate, unprincipled inciters having ruined themselves through proliferation and debauchery of every kind," ranted a scathing excerpt from an English editorial. "The whole nation is thrown [itself] in contention... Such has been the degeneracy of modern patriotism, that they would expunge every word from our dictionary, or frame [canvas]." Through the eyes of the British,...

  9. The Thirteen Sisters of Julia Street
    date 1833map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Town Home, gentrification, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Architecture, Arts/Leisure

    The thirteen sisters of Julia Street started a new trend. These "sisters" were a row of thirteen side-hall style town houses that spanned the 600 block of Julia Street in New Orleans. Upon their construction by the New Orleans Building Company in 1833, they were among first rows constructed in the side-hall, or London-plan, manner most commonly seen in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The exteriors combined...

  10. Thomas Nast Draws a Political Statement at the Chicago Convention
    date September 3, 1864map COOK, Illinoistags War, Politics, Arts/Leisure

    Twenty-four year old Thomas Nast made known his support for incumbent President Lincoln in a work in the September edition of Harper's Weekly. The cartoon entitled "Compromise With the South" was one of his most powerful and effective cartoons, and one of his personal favorites that he dedicated to the Democratic Chicago Convention in particular. Harper's Weekly, the first periodical to achieve national...

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