The Caning of Abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner by Democrat
A statue at the Boston Public Garden is a reminder of the political violence that our nation experienced leading up to the Civil War. On …
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Under the Oaks Convention: The First Mass Gathering of the Republican Party
In 1854, just after the anniversary of the nation on the 6th of July, an anti-slavery state convention was held in Jackson, Michigan. The hot …
President Franklin Pierce signed the divisive Kansas-Nebraska Act into Law
In 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed a bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska, a vast area of land that would become Kansas, Nebraska, Montana …
First Republican Party meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin.
This simple frame schoolhouse, built in 1853, holds a powerful history. In the Little White Schoolhouse a decision made by a small group of Ripon …
Communist Defector and Christian Convert Orestes Brownson: “The Great Object was to get Rid of Christianity, and to Convert our Churches into Halls of Science”
It has taken more than a century and a half for the government schools to degenerate into the militantly anti-Christian, nightmarish system that it is …
Abolitionist, Sojourner Truth, Delivers “Ain’t I a Woman?” Speech at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio
Sojourner Truth was a slave-turned abolitionist. She became a Methodist and was called to ministry. Truth delivered a speech entitled “Ain’t I a Woman?” in …
Seneca Falls Convention, One of the First Women’s Rights Conventions to be Held in American History, Begins
The American women’s rights movement began with a meeting of reformers in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Out of that first convention came a …
The Associated Press is Founded by Five NYC Newspapers to Share Costs
The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War. The venture was …
The First Presidential Candidate to be Assassinated was a Real Thorn to the Democrats, and Founder of the Mormon Church
It was an unlikely candidacy: a thirty-eight-year-old mayor from the heartland who pitched himself as the solution to partisan gridlock, played up his military experience, …
Amistad Rebellion: Sengbe Pieh and 56 fellow Africans Mutiny Aboard the Ship La Armistad enroute to Cuba
On July 2, 1839, Sengbe Pieh and 56 fellow Africans mutiny aboard the ship La Armistad enroute to Cuba. The ship is captured off Long Island, NY, …