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Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - Mrs. John Adams, Disagrees with George...
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), Mrs. John Adams, by Gilbert Stuart, ca. 1800-1815. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.By Elizabeth Bissell Miller, “Abigail Adams,”The Digital Encyclopedia of...
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What were the Founding Fathers' Wives (& Slaves) Fixing for Supper?
Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam(Wikimedia Commons)What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?By Amanda Cargill at Smithsonian.com, July 3, 2018"...Walter Staib,...
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American Colonial Era Artists & Society Look At Older Women
1730-40 Artist: John Smibert 1688-1751. Subject: Sarah Middlecott 1678-1764 (Mrs. Louis Boucher). Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum. Mr. Louis Boucher, who had been born in France, was lost at sea...
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1734 A Divine & Supernatural Light, Imparted to the Soul by God-Spiritual &...
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)nbsp; by Joseph Badger (1708–65). Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was an American preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as "one...
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Slaves in in Maryland - Men & Women
Tobacco - Stringing the Primings. 19C Newspaper imageSoon after the settlement of Maryland in the 17C, British ships with Africans for sale as slaves began to appear in the Chesapeake. The Atlantic...
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Fugitive Slaves in Maryland
From The Library Company of PhiladelphiaAfrican American men & women used the act of running away as part of a broader system of resisting the physical and psychological manipulation of slavery. In...
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Growing & Eating Food Crops in 18C Maryland
In the half-century century leading up to the American Revolution, tobacco exports from the Chesapeake tripled, marking an important evolution in Maryland's agriculture. Tobacco prices, which in the...
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1764 Revolution Rising - The Sugar Act - The Revenue Act - The American...
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose....
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1764 Revolution Rising - The Currency Act
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose....
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1765 Revolution Rising - The Quartering Act
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose....
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1766 Revolution Rising - The Declaratory Act
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose....
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1765 Revolution Rising - The Stamp Act
Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children. British political cartoon shows England as a elderly man leaning on a crutch, trying to pull the American colonists by the nose....
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1775 Revolution Rising - Ralph Earl's Propaganda Drawings
Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Plate I The battle of Lexington, April 19th. 1775. The Doolittle engravings of the battles of Lexington & Concord in 1775. Amos Doolittle (engraver) &...
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The diary & sad life of Mary Wright Cooper (1714-1778) of Oyster Bay, NY
On July 13, 1769, Mary Wright Cooper wrote in her diary, "This day is forty years sinc I left my father’s house & come here, & here have I seene littel els but harde labour & sorrow,...
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Jane McCrae 1752-1777 Killed during the American Revolution
Jane McCrae (sometimes spelled McCrae or MacCrae, 1752-1777) was a young woman who was purportedly slain by Native American allies of the British army’s Lieutenant General John Burgoyne. It was...
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1784 Children in the Early Republic
The Gloucester Limner JBIn nearby Baltimore, Jill and Austin Fine collected folk art for decades. One of the most endearing pieces they collected was JB by an artist dubbed the Gloucester Limner. Two...
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18C American Women - Moravian Johann Valentin Haidt 1700-1780
Mrs. Gertraut Graff. Johann Valentin Haidt (1700-1780) Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.Johann Valentin Haidt (Heydt) was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Poland, on October 4, 1700. Haidt came from...
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Biography - Henrietta Benigna Justine Zinzendorf von Watteville (1725-1789)...
Henrietta Benigna Justine Zinzendorf von Watteville (1725-1789) Moravian educator, a key figure in the beginnings of Moravian Seminary & College for Women, Bethlehem, Pa., was born in Berthelsdorf,...
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Acceptance of Jewish Men & Women in New Republic by George Washington
President George Washington's reply letter to Moses Seixas and the Hebrew Congregation of Newport Rhode Island in 1790 is listed by the Library of Congress as of the most important documents in the...
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