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December 20, 2017
Harry Truman’s Harried Christmas: 1945
Harry Truman, home for Christmas, 1945.
The Sudden Presidency
President Roosevelt looked very ill when he met with Churchill and Stalin for the last time.
While political insiders had noticed Franklin D. Roosevelt’s physical decline, the country was in shock when their President – for twelve years and counting – died suddenly in Warm Springs, GA. His failing health had been generally hidden from the public.
It had also been hidden from VP Harry Truman, who had o...
Chysauster Ancient Settlement, Near Gulval, Cornwall
Chysauster Ancient Settlement, Cornwall. B/W aerial photo.
OS Grid Reference: SW 4723 3497. A few miles to the northwest of Gulval, Cornwall, lie the quite remarkably intact and restored ruins of Chysauster Iron Age settlement/village at Newmill. It is 3 miles north of Penzance. There are several oval-shaped houses with courtyards, a street and also terraced garden plots, and at the south-side a ruined underground passageway known as a fogou or souterrain. This v...
December 19, 2017
Remembrance Walk, Stop 5: Civilians and War
From Hennessy: [For stops 1-4, click here, here, here, and here.]
As we walked the Sunken Road last weekend, we stopped in front of the Innis house–a home that bears as many visible scars from battle as any house in America. Becca Jameson shared the following.
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Here, in front of this battle-ravaged house, scarred inside and out, and near a house once famous, now gone, we remember….
….the civilians, their town, their world, and how war changed them all....
Cliff Palace and the Ancient Pueblo People
On the 18th of December 1888, Richard Wetherill, explorer, guide and excavator to-be, along with his friend Charlie Mason, both cowboys from Mancos, found Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde after noticing the ruins from the top of the highland. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America, its structure built by the Ancient Pueblo People, now taking pride of place in Mesa Verde National Park, their former homeland in southwestern Colorado, U.S.A. Ancestral Pueblo peoples...
Eastern Promise: Mughal India and the East India Company
We never initially set out to research Mughal India and the East India Company (EIC) but, time and time again, the people we were looking at took us east. It all started with the eighteenth-century courtesan, Grace Dalrymple Elliott’s family. Grace had a brother and three male cousins who all ventured to India in different capacities with the EIC. Perhaps best known of these is Colonel John (Jack) Mordaunt, who has been captured for posterity in the middle of a cock match...
December 18, 2017
Children’s Christmas Letters 3
Christmas History 30. Recently on Windows into History we have been looking at some letters from children published in a January 1910 edition of the Iowa Homestead, writing about how they spent their Christmas. The following is another selection:
Christmas was a very bad day here. It was snowing furiously when I started to my grandma and grandpa’s house in Taylorville, with my sister, mother and father. We had a very disagreeable trip through the snow, but reached ther...
Severed from Salem
Reading through the Phillips Library catalog is an activity that is simultaneously enticing and frustrating: one can glean the scope of the collections but not access them, provenances are presented but not deeds of gift or deposit (which is standard). Given the missions of its two founding institutions, the Essex Institute and the Peabody Museum, the Phillips’ collections are both regional and global in nature, but one cannot fail to notice the prominence of Salem materials,...
Queen Anne’s 12 year love affair
Anne of Bohemia
Anne of Bohemia was born on the 11th May 1366 in Prague, to parents; Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania, she being the daughter of Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania and Elisabeth of Poland.
Pope Urban VI approved the alliance, the marriange of Richard and Anne, noting that he might have a stronger hand to play in negotiations with the French.
Anne was the daughter, of Europe’s most powerful monarch at the time...
Trooper Jane Ingilby
Did you know that during the English Civil War, there were so many reports about women going into battle (on both sides) that in 1644, King Charles 1 of England passed a law to ban women from wearing men’s clothes and forbidding them from fighting?
Trooper Jane Ingilby was one of these women.
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