Blog April 1865: A Month to Remember by Alan Fitch The Great Quake of 1906 by Alan Fitch Remembering Ben Franklin: One of the Most Legendary Men in American History by Alan Fitch “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”: The 250th Anniversary of Patrick Henry’s Immortal Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Jonathan Dickey February 1623: Jamestowne Colony Tallies Up the Grim Statistics of the “Livinge & Dead in Virginia,” Following the Massacre of 1622 by Jonathan Dickey January 1863: President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Extending Freedom to Enslaved Persons by Jonathan Dickey December 1, 1774: the 250th Anniversary of the “Non-Importation” of British Goods to America, and the Beginning of American Independence by Jonathan Dickey November 11, 1620: The “Mayflower Compact” Is Signed at Cape Cod, and a New Form of Government Is Established in North America by Jonathan Dickey Thomas Edison – One of America’s Greatest Inventors by Alan Fitch The California Gold Rush: The 175TH Anniversary of the “49’ERS,” and California’s First Constitutional Convention, September 1849 by Jonathan Dickey
