Remembering Sacagawea
United States $1 commemorative coin honoring Sacajawea, 2000. A watershed event in American history was the Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-06. We’ve posted remembrances before about...
Remembering Jane Grey Swisshelm
Born this day on December 6, 1815, Jane Grey Swisshelm was one of America’s best-known anti-slavery advocates of the 19th century. Born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Jane married James Swisshelm at...
Remembering John Brown
Fifteen months before the American Civil War commenced with the shelling of Fort Sumter in April 1861, one of the most memorable events in the history of the abolitionist movement in the United...
