Any American with a high school diploma should recognize the names and deeds of our country’s most renowned Founders, patriots like Washington, Jefferson, and Abigail and John Adams. Some former students may recollect less familiar figures from that era who appear in most history texts, like Nathan Hale, Lafayette, Molly Pitcher, and John Paul Jones….
Freedom Fighter With a Pen: Mercy Otis Warren and American Liberty
March 22, 2023
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Profiles in History: W.W. Keen: The President’s Surgeon
By the time 1893 rolled around, W.W. Keen (1837–1932) was arguably the most prominent doctor in the country. That year, more than any other, would require his best work, because the stakes could not have been higher: The fate of America’s leader and, possibly, the country’s entire economy rested on his shoulders. Keen graduated from…
North Bend: An Antebellum Home With Its History Intact
March 19, 2023
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If rooms and furnishings could talk, the home referred to as North Bend in Charles City, Virginia, would be in perpetual chatter mode. Throughout its history, many significant occurrences took place within the Greek Revival-style home, starting with its construction in 1801 by John Minge for his wife, Sarah Harrison, the sister of William Henry Harrison,…
Daughter Celebrates Unstoppable 92-Year-Old Mom’s Verve for Life
When my mother arrived in this world, her parents intended to name her Shirley Arlene King. Shirley’s big sister made an appeal to switch the name to Arlene Shirley and presented her case with a valid explanation: “Because then her initials will spell ‘A.S. King’ but we can still call her Shirley!” A win-win deal! Shirley’s…
3 Expert-Approved Gardening Methods to Start Growing Your Own Food
Gardens come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny pots on a kitchen windowsill filled with herbs to an intensively planned backyard that provides enough produce to feed a family of four. Despite what the internet may tell you, there is no perfect bug-free, weed-free, one-size-fits-all solution, so we’ve consulted three gardening experts about their…
Alva Vanderbilt’s Marble House Became the Blueprint for Gilded Age Grandeur
Quietly nestled along the Narraganset Bay, the Marble House was the first of the stone palaces to be built in Newport—transforming the quiet colony of wooden houses into a bastion of opulence. It would be called a “cottage,” in deference to the earlier shingle style summer residences. But in truth, this was a grand home…
Successfully Navigating the Art of Landscape Painting
Montana-based landscape painter Jake Gaedtke’s first art museum visit astounded him, leaving him with a lifelong impression and a dream to fulfill. He can’t recall the paintings, but he can remember their impact on his second-grade self as if it were yesterday. Walking with his class around the Detroit Institute of Art, a group of…
Deep Into the Heart of Alaska: By Air, Road, and Rail
It is difficult to even begin to comprehend a place like Alaska. Vast, in a way that’s almost indescribable. Arctic tundra and temperate rain forest. The tallest mountain on the continent, so high that its summit is coated with mighty glaciers and, most of the time, shrouded by cloud. Untamed rivers flowing into frigid seas….
The Educator Who Shaped the Destiny and Morality of a Nation
Passionate teachers can light a flame in their students that will burn long into the future. Few of them, however, can claim to have helped shape the destiny and moral character of a nation. Beginning in 1835, in conjunction with the Cincinnati publishing firm Truman and Smith, professor William Holmes McGuffey (1800–1873) wrote four readers…
The Cherished Inheritance of the Adams Family Lineage: Education
If you ask what education means to people, most will think “school.” If they are jaded, “debt.” But for the first great American family, it was much more than this. In his autobiography, “The Education of Henry Adams,” the author describes growing up within a celebrated lineage that, by his lifetime, had become a cultural…
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