Tag: guest post
A glimpse into the Civil War experience of Company F
Today’s blog post comes from Mary Burtzloff, archivist at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. The black leather-bound journal had water stains and mold around the edges. It looked a bit icky, but the contents of the Civil War journal fascinated me. One hundred and fifty years after our nation’s bloodiest conflict, we are reminded [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 24, 2013, under - Civil Rights.
Tags: 22nd Regiment, civil war, diary, Eisenhower Library, guest blogger, guest post, hard tack, Maine, Mary Burtzloff, salt beef
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Washington’s first Inaugural Address now on display
“My station is new; and, if I may use the expression, I walk on untrodden ground.” –George Washington in a letter, January 9, 1790 Today’s post comes to us from Michael Hussey, education and exhibition specialist at the National Archives. In honor of the 2013 Inauguration, the first and last page of Washington’s first Inauguration [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 11, 2013, under - Presidents.
Tags: Founding Fathers, guest post, Inauguration, Michael Hussey, Presidential oath
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The Check is in the Mail: The Hunt for Abraham Lincoln’s Congressional Pay Records
Today’s blog post comes from David J. Gerleman, assistant editor of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln’s two-year stint as a Illinois Whig congressman is one of the lesser-known periods of his eventful life. Had he remained in obscurity, it might have remained the crowning achievement of a fizzled frontier political career. Having been [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 7, 2013, under - Civil War, - Presidents, Letters in the National Archives.
Tags: 30th Congress, Congress, David J. Gerleman, guest blogger, guest post, lincoln, mileage, pay records, research in the National Archives, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, voucher
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Emancipation Proclamation: The 13th Amendment
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. The news of the Emancipation Proclamation was greeted with joy, even though it did not free all the slaves. Because of the limitations of the proclamation, and because it depended on a Union military victory, President Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 3, 2013, under - Civil War, - Presidents.
Tags: 13th amendment, Congress, Constitution, emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, guest post
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Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. On the first day of the new year in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, declaring freedom for slaves in parts of the Confederacy that had not yet come under Union control. Historian John Hope Franklin described the day: [It] was a [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 1, 2013, under - Civil War.
Tags: Emancipation Proclamation, guest post, lincoln, New Year's Day, william seward
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