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On May 1, 1865, newly-freed African Americans who fought in the Civil War decorated soldiers' graves on what is thought to be the first-cited Memorial Day.

After two years of disruptions, the Maine Mayhem festival returns to its usual format. 'It's good to be back home.'

Indie Film: SMCC’s student film fest returns bigger and better This years Maine Mayhem also includes the best of last years class, whose festival was canceled because of the pandemic. By Dennis Perkins Share A scene from “Late Nights,” about a mild-mannered family man who splits his time between daytime construction worker and nighttime enforcer for the mob. Photo courtesy of Corey Norman Everybody loves a good comeback story. And while Maine Mayhem might be the name of a Maine-based ...

Learning from Lincoln Sean Wilentz is a historian of the leftist persuasion and also a principled opponent of the New York Times’s 1619 Project errors, distortions, and lies (my word, not his), now adopted as the orthodoxy of the Democratic Party. The problem is “A matter of facts,” he wrote in The Atlantic. He also signed off on the letter prominent historians sent to the Times challenging the project as ideological rather than historical. Coincidentally with my own comments this week o...

John Gordon Thomson, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Just 30 years after the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, history was repeating itself. Faced with more failing crops, landlords in Ireland again began evicting the tenant farmers who could no longer earn their keep. The issue had never really gone away: The previous famine had revealed just how few farmers actually owned land, and citizens had been fighting for tenants’ rights since the 1850s. But the latest agricultural crisis caused te...

SUMMARY Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly was born enslaved in Dinwiddie County in 1818. For more than thirty-seven years, she labored for three different branches of the Armistead Burwell family. At fourteen, she began ten years of bondage in the household of Burwell’s eldest son, a minister in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where she endured repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults and eventually gave birth to a son. Sent back to Virginia, she was enslaved in the household of Anne Burwell Garland an...

[inaudible conversations] >> good evening. welcome to the sylvan historical society. i am mark wetherington and i thank you for joining us for i know what will be a interesting program "thomas nast" the father of modern political cartoons with dr. fiona deans halloran. and i want to thank you for being here. i was remarking this was the first time i can embed in a while that we had sunshine only started this evenings program so i appreciate you coming in and being with us. our mission ...

>> youre watching booktv on c-span2. coming up next, fiona deans halloran recounts the life of political cartoonist thomas nast. a regular contributor to harpers weekly, mr. ness made popular the donkey and elephant as symbols of the democratic and republican parties. this is about 40 minutes. >> good evening. welcome to the filson historical society. im the director and i want to thank you for joining us tonight for what i know be a very interesting program, "thomas nast: the father o...

a part of the culture and political culture or cartoons. weaponize cartoon collection your. we have one example of actually thomas nast cartoon over here that our speaker might have time to point to later, and well see. if we have any additional questions, the curator concerted bring up to speed. if youre not a member, we would love to have you join us. we are private, nonprofit historical society and not supported by government funding. we would appreciate your membership. this is the...

one of them, joseph holt, judge advocate general who had been responsible for the trial, but the other was his superior edwin stanton. so perhaps i will leave it this way. the next day after i saw those documents from the war department, i sent a short note to secretary stanton which read, dear sir. public considerations of high character constrain me to inform you that your resignation as secretary of war will be accepted. may i tell you what he said in response? dear sir, public cons...