NMShistorygeek
@NMShistorygeek
Teaching American history to future historians.
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Samuel Morse, Art Professor at NYU in 1839. Daguerreotype by Dr John William Draper 1839.
In Shepherdstown, West Virginia, two bald eagles worked together to construct a large nest at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ National Conservation (USFWS) Training Center.
From Dec 20 to Dec 26, 1944, during the #BattleoftheBulge, the @101stAASLTDIV formed an all-round perimeter of Bastogne. ➡️ go.usa.gov/xnE2T
Getting her due at 82. A movie is being made about Claudette Colvin’s life. The Vice President called her. The woman who spent most of her life as a convicted juvenile delinquent is now being recognized for what she is: a civil rights hero.
An amazing discovery in our neck of the woods! #cannon #revwar #amrev #awi #huzzah wfmz.com/news/area/sout…
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Team shares story of unearthing 4 Revolutionary War-era cannons in Chester County
Four massive cannons from the Revolutionary War were found at the Thomas P. Bentley Nature Preserve in Chester County.
One of @ArlingtonNatl’s most beautiful pre-#MemorialDay traditions is “Flags In”, where Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry place flags at every single headstone to honor our fallen. This unit, known also as “The Old Guard”, has conducted this time-honored tradition since 1948.
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
Oldest house in France. It's found in Aveyron, built in 13th century and belonged to a Jeanne. Ground floor is a little smaller than upstairs because in those times you only paid taxes on occupied land, so everyone built like this. #archaeohistories
You may have seen this remarkable man before, but this is the first time I've tried restoring his portrait: It is Conrad Heyer, the earliest-born (& verified) human ever to have been photographed. He was born 271 years ago (back in 1749) & photographed here when he was 103.
#OTD in 1775, Paul Revere (with Samuel Prescott and William Dawes) rode from Charlestown to Lexington warning "the Regulars are coming." Contrary to the myth, he never shouted the British were coming because, not yet an independent nation, the colonies were in fact, British.
4 Apr1776 The body of patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren, killed at the Breed’s Hill in 1775, was discovered by his brothers Ebenezer & John Warren. Identified by the golden wire attaching two false teeth Paul Revere had made. #RevWar #History #AmRev
#OnThisDay in 1917 Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, assumed office as a representative from Montana. She was elected 4 years before women had the right to vote nationally. #HerStory
Not wanting to stay on the home front, Deborah Sampson joined the patriot cause and enlisted in the light infantry Company of the Fourth MA Regiment in 1782, going under the alias of her dead brother Robert Shurtliff, to fight in the Continental Army. battlefields.org/learn/biograph…
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Deborah Sampson
Not unlike women eighty years later who disguised themselves as men to serve in the Union and Confederate armies of the Civil War, women of the...
Congratulations to the Northern Bocce Team who placed 8th at the PIAA State Bocce Championships! We are proud of you.
It’s Beaver Stadium jumbotron official 🤩🏆
This attack on a shopping center is not a coincidence. Putin wants to starve the civilians to make them pressurize their leaders. Let’s pressurize Putin‘s Russia instead. If you continue to do business with them, you have blood on your hands.
#OTD Mar. 18, 1865: The day after his failed attempt to abduct #Lincoln, #JohnWilkesBooth performed for the last time. In his audience at @fordstheatre were fellow conspirators #JohnSurratt, #GeorgeAtzerodt, & #DavidHerold.
On this day in 1776, the British army withdraws from Boston following an 11-month siege by Rebel forces. Evacuation Day, as it becomes known, is commemorated in the city to this day.
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