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Há 2 dias · An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It's back. NEW YORK – Cheyney McKnight waited years to celebrate Pinkster. On a scorching Saturday morning in May ...
Há 2 dias · The account below of the first 300 years of recorded history of Westchester County was prepared by Susan Cochran Swanson and Elizabeth Green Fuller in 1982. Smith's Tavern, on Bedford Road in Armonk, is believed to have been built in the late 1700's. John Smith, a former captain in the Continental Army, operated the house as a tavern, post ...
21 de mai. de 2024 · Hear tales of quarantine on Governors Island. Explore the rebellious sentiment of colonial New York. Relive the groundbreaking libel trial of newspaper printer John Peter Zenger. Discover how ...
7 de mai. de 2024 · 1636–1663. Rhode Island Colony was one of the 13 Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The colony started in 1636 and established Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State. Roger Williams founded Providence Plantations in 1636, which was the first permanent settlement in what became Rhode Island.
22 de mai. de 2024 · LibGuides: Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother E. Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world.
25 de mai. de 2024 · In the nineteenth century, 1686, when the city received a charter dividing the city into wards, was regarded as the most important year. In 1915, the year 1664 was adopted and included in the redesigned seal of New York, just in time for the city’s 250th anniversary. And decades later, in 1974, the founding year was changed to 1625.
Há 1 dia · U.S. President Harry Truman signing into law the Luce–Celler Act in 1946 [74] In 1945, the War Brides Act allowed foreign-born wives of U.S. citizens who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces to immigrate to the United States. In 1946, the War Brides Act was extended to include the fiancés of American soldiers.
