by Alexander Huffman April 4th, 1843 In Early October of the year 1840, a humble Bostonian bootmaker by the name of Jeremiah Horne began making boots without any compensation. He was a member of the Boston Journeymen Bootmakers’ Society, and his fellow bootmakers objected to his making boots for free, so conflict arose. Isaac Wait,…
by Axel Wood May 3, 1851 PORTLAND, OR – There is no words that can describe how horrific, painful surgeries can be. Even to a strong man, the moment when the surgical instrument tearing the skin, going inside the flesh, and bringing infinite pain can be worse than being dead. Moreover, if the surgery is…
Georgiana B. Smyth July 15, 1846 Imagine the most expansive area of land you have ever seen, land that is so expansive it fills the horizons with vast greenery not yet cultivated by Americans, land that has been granted by God for us to occupy and settle. That is Manifest Destiny. In August 1839, John…
By Kate Ashe, March 30, 1836 Blood, terror, no American soldiers left alive. The Southernmost American colonies are currently in a state of strife with the Mexican authorities whose land they reside on, mostly concerning the lack of government involvement in civilian life.1 Recently, this disagreement has caused several battles ending in mass deaths, both of…
By Grace Cornish, June 1859 The Gold Mountain, or as we Americans call it, The United States of America. This is the destination of the many who are searching for fortune and are arriving from all around the globe, and a significant portion of these hopefuls are from China. The Chinese have ventured far from…
By Jedidiah D. Fox Georgia, one of America’s proudest states, is where we, the Americans, have settled and created an abundant life for the next generations to come. However, we can never forget that we live upon the lands of what was once owned by the Cherokee, a tribe of rebellious Indians believing that they…
By: Aki A. Today I went to a town called “New Harmony” in Indiana in order to understand more knowledge about utopian communities. The settlement was first founded by the Harmony society under the leadership of a group of German in Indiana, they named this settlement “Harmony” in 1804.1Then in 1815, the town was moved…
By Elliott von Currer December 3, 1823 Baltimore, MD President James Monroe 1816 George Washington left the President’s house after departing on the people of America a message of urgency. In his Farewell Address, Washington spoke of a nation “which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a…
By Margret Brown, 1845 LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS– From the outside, Lowell Massachusetts looks like a haven for young ladies looking for work. While that is partially correct, it is not the whole truth. Look further into the mills and the stories of the girls running it, and you will find the whole truth. The mills…
By: Anna-Marie Cyrus November 4th, 1845 All aboard the Underground Railroad! Hang on, that’s not quite right. The Underground Railroad? Yes. Underground? No. A railroad with a train? No. So then, what is it? The Underground Railroad is supposedly a vast network of safe houses, predominately black abolitionists and routes, that leads runaway slaves to…
by J.R. Mitchell June 28, 1844 James W. Nesmith intended to be part of the 100 person wagon train that embarked in 1842, but arrived in Independence, Missouri after the company had left. Nesmith spent the next year working as a carpenter building Fort Scott, and was ready to set out on the trail in…
by Scott S. Dale Date : 20 May 1870 The United States is in the midst of one of the greatest developments, yet there are cases where the success of some people comes at the expense of others’ hardships. The Oneida Community was founded in 1848 by John Noyes who intended to establish a community…
By Camilla F. Chandelier Published May 27th, 1844 “What hath God wrought?”—the sentence, unsealing the United States of America to the new better world, was sent from Washington, DC to Baltimore on this past Friday, May 24th, 1844, by Samuel F. B. Morse1 and his “TELEGRAPH.” Rather than walking to them, knocking the doors, and having…
By Barrett Gladstone August, 1848. It was a sweltering summer day in Seneca Falls, New York. The summer breeze traveled through the open Wesleyan church doors as 68 women and 32 men gathered to debate and advance the rights and power of women.1 Among them was Frederick Douglass, a slavery abolitionist and an avid supporter…
By Victoria Rose, July 1848 Upon first seeing the announcement of the Seneca Falls convention in our sister paper, the Seneca County Courier, I was truly beside myself with joy. The announcement appeared earlier this July in the Courier, and small though the typeface was, it’s physical size did nothing to undermine the revolutionary beginning…
By John Coon CONNECTICUT 1852 – Thirty years ago alcoholism was rampant across the homes of the America where the average adult consumed nearly seven gallons of alcohol annually.1 In order to prevent this great evil’s spread, increasing numbers of citizens joined and are joining the Temperance movement2 which, in turn, has made the liquor…
August 19, 1850: By Jonas Johnston Washington, D.C.- The American Colonization Society, which founded Liberia in 1830 with the assistance of our good President James Monroe1, has recently put out a request for the people of the United States to raise twenty thousand dollars in a fundraising attempt to buy and establish a series of…
Date, by Nom de Plum. This is a temporary post to help you understand how to format your blog post BEFORE you publish. Title: all good blog posts and journalistic pieces have creative titles, of course. These are designed to both inform and hook the reader. In the 21st century, these have morphed into “click-bait.”…
December 21, 1850 Through my 50 years of journalism, I have been present for the rise of the cotton industry. When I first began my writing, cotton was rarely present in southern farms, dominated by unstable crops such as tobacco and rice. These crops were either horribly unreliable, with constantly fluctuating prices (tobacco) or unfortunately…
Baltimore Sun – 1842 In my experience as a journalist over the past 35 years, I have closely followed the relationship of the native people of America with the white citizens and settlers. I have seen many different opinions of the my fellow Americans on the land, the trading, and the customs of the Indians.…
Baltimore Sun Jonathan Beckerman Dec 25, 1850 It is not easy to sum up 50 years of study, reporting, immersion in such a huge aspect of life in the United States. After spending your life following a story you almost don’t want there to be an end, you find yourself wishing that it could have…
Life of the Nation - an Early 19th C. Journalism Project 