Blog 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 350 Years Ago: Happy Birthday to “New York New York” by Jonathan Dickey The 200th Anniversary of the Election of 1824: A Plebiscite on the Future of the American West by Jonathan Dickey 250th Anniversary: The 1774 Boston Port Act Unleashes theIndependence Movement in the American Colonies by Jonathan Dickey The 170th Anniversary of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:Prelude to the American Civil War by Jonathan Dickey
