Blog “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 “The Nation’s Guest”: The 200th Anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s Tour of America, 1824-25 by Jonathan Dickey Connecticut Colonial Governor Thomas Fitch The Revolution of 1766 by Alan Fitch 400 Years Ago in 1624: At Jamestowne Colony, Multiple Calamities Lead to the Ouster of The Virginia Company, and a Takeover by the Crown by Jonathan Dickey
