Tag Archive for ‘A Nation Rising’
Don’t Know Much About® THE STONO REBELLION
For those still stuck with the Gone With the Wind view of American slavery, September 9 is the anniversary of one of the largest and most violent slave insurrections in American History.
TODAY IN HISTORY: Don’t Know Much About® Tocqueville in America
Happy Birthday, Monsieur Tocqueville (born July 29, 1805; died April 16, 1859) Observing a Choctaw tribe—the old, the sick, the wounded, and newborns among them—forced to cross an ice-choked Mississippi River during the harsh winter, Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, “In the whole scene, there was an air of destruction, something which betrayed a final [...]
Raising the Star and Stripes in California
On July 7, 1846, the United States Navy sailed into Monterey Bay and announced that the Republic of California was now a part of the United States. Just like that, the future state of California fell from Mexico’s hands into its American future. The story of California’s shift from Spain to Mexico and then to American control is an extraordinary one. The last part of that story, the annexation of California by the United States, is due largely to the exploits of a somewhat forgotten man, John Charles Frémont and his extraordinary wife Jessie Benton Frémont.
