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Doc of the Day: Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
On October 19, 1765, the Stamp Act Congress approved a Declaration of Rights (including fourteen resolutions) and several petitions denying Parliament’s authority to tax the thirteen colonies. The Stamp Act Congress and its resolutions helped lead to the act’s repeal in March 1766. They also led the colonists to focus on the idea of constitutional [...]
19Oct2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Around the history blogosphere: October 17
Here are some recent posts related to primary sources from other sites:
The A. Lincoln blog on Barack Obama’s Dreams of My Father, Abraham Lincoln’s writings, and the expectations of a president
The American Presidents Blog on a letter written by William McKinley to his wife about dinner with President Rutherford B. Hayes
History Is Elementary on quotations [...]
In the News: Presidential debates
Last night in New York, Barack Obama and John McCain participated in the third and final presidential debate of this 2008 election. The focus was on domestic issues, including the economy. The debate transcript can be seen here, at the Web site of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the organization that conducts the debates. For [...]
16Oct2008 | mdblogger | 7 comments | Continued
Spotlight: Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born on March 15, 1767, just south of the border between North and South Carolina. His birth marked the beginning of an extraordinarily eventful life. While an orphaned teenager, he was taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War, leading to a lifelong animosity toward the British. [...]
14Oct2008 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued
Doc of the Day: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, adopted on October 14, 1774, is the Continental Congress’s most important proclamation of principles and demonstrates the widening gap between the American colonists and their English motherland. Issued roughly six months before fighting broke out between the colonists and the British at Lexington and Concord, the [...]
14Oct2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Proclamation of 1763
On October 7, 1763, Great Britain’s Board of Trade under King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763. The proclamation represented an attempt to control settlement and trade on the western frontier of Britain’s North American colonies. The proclamation essentially closed the Ohio Valley to settlement by colonists by defining the area west of [...]
7Oct2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Around the history blogosphere
Here are some recent posts related to primary sources from other sites.
The first document to use the term “New England,” from History Is Elemental
The New York Times on Eisenhower’s selection of Earl Warren as chief justice, from Edge of the American West
A letter of condolence from Babe Ruth to Mrs. Harding on the death of [...]
In the News: Vice-Presidential Debates
At first glance, yesterday’s vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin appears to have lacked any moments of historical importance. This, despite the fact that prior to the debate, political commentators noted that interest in the debate was unusually high. While most presidential historians would say that vice-presidential debates generally have very little if [...]
3Oct2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Executive Order 10730
On September 24, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, thereby sending federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, where unruly crowds had prevented the desegregation of all-white Central High School. Not since the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War had federal troops gone to the South to maintain law and order. Many [...]
24Sep2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Chester Pach on Eisenhower and the Little Rock school crisis
Sometimes presidents take actions that surprise just about everybody, including themselves, and a good example is President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decision fifty-one years ago to issue Executive Order 10730. Within hours after Eisenhower approved this document on September 24, 1957, U.S. Army troops arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas, to stop the violence that had prevented [...]
23Sep2008 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued