The First Selfie
As of this writing, about 700 billion photographs have been uploaded to the internet. Billions and billions more exist in physical form. Many of these
As of this writing, about 700 billion photographs have been uploaded to the internet. Billions and billions more exist in physical form. Many of these
George Washington, universally acclaimed nowadays as one of our best presidents, encountered a little bad press in his own day. Even before his inauguration, he
Walt Disney’s 1948 animated short, “The Legend of Johnny Appleseed,” famously depicts its main character as a Pennsylvania farmer yearning to join the pioneers heading
In mid-1772, a British customs schooner, the HMS Gaspee, attempted to catch an American packet ship off the coast of Rhode Island. The Gaspee was
When a young U.S. Army lieutenant named Zebulon Pike set out to explore the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains in 1806, he was unceremoniously
By the time George Clymer was 1 year old, both his mother and his father were dead. Orphaned, George was placed in the care of
Michael Owens came from Irish stock. His family had escaped a potato famine and an oppressive British regime by immigrating to America, eventually settling in
In the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War, Boston wasn’t the only scene of intense friction between British soldiers and American colonials. Imperial
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