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Tag Archives: Presidential history
The Sagamore Hill-Hyde Park Relations: Part 1
Family Ties. The Common Bond Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt came to New Amsterdam around 1640, about the time Peter Stuyvesant was its governor. He was not a wealthy man. He did not come for religious freedom. He did not come … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nifty History People, Theodore Roosevelt
Tagged American history, Anna "Bamie" Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, FDR's father James Roosevelt, FDR's mother Sara Delano Roosevelt, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, history, Hyde Park Roosevelts, James Roosevelt, Johannes and Jacobus Roosevelt, Oyster Bay LI Roosevelts, President Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential history, Sagamore Hill Roosevelts, Sara Delano Roosevelt, The Roosevelt lineage, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Senior, US history, White House history
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President Ike and the Interstate Highway System
POTUS Ike: The Early Advocate Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Lt. Colonel in the US Army in 1917, when US participation in The Great War began. He was deeply disappointed that he was not assigned to active military service abroad; … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tagged American history, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Early US roads, Eisenhower Interstate System, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Eisenhower, General Lucius Clay, history, Ike Eisenhower, Planning the US Interstate Highway System, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, Presidential history, Reasons for the US Interstate Highway System, The Interstate Highway Commission, U.S. Interstate Highway System, US roads in 1920, White House history
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Ellen Herndon: Mrs. Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur was a recent widower when he was elected VP in 1880. The Private Arthurs No one was more surprised than Chester Alan Arthur when he was nominated for (and elected) Vice President in 1880. Had she lived, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Chester Alan Arthur, Chester Alan Arthur NY Quartermaster, Ellen Herndon Arthur, Ellen Lewis Herndon, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, history, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Nell Arthur, President Chester Alan Arthur, Presidential history, Tiffany stained glass window in St. John's Church, US history, White House history
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Lincoln, Brady and the Cooper Union Photograph
Lincoln of Illinois In February 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a country lawyer from Illinois was little known outside of his home state. He was fifty-one years old and a former Whig. Despite having served in the state legislature while he was … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Brady photograph of candidate Lincoln, Brady photograph of Jenny Lind, Cooper Union, Feather Schwartz Foster, Harper's Magazine, history, Lincoln's Cooper Union speech, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Mathew Brady, Mathew Brady photograph of Jenny Lind, Photographer Mathew Brady, Photographs by Mathew Brady, Photographs of Lincoln, Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, Presidential history, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, The Young Men's Central Republican Union, US history, White House history, winslow Homer
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Thomas Jefferson: Smuggler
The Agronomist Long before Monticello as we know it was built and rebuilt by “Thomas Jefferson, Architect,” his love of the land on his little mountain was deep and lifelong. TJ was more than just a Virginia planter. Most of … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Thomas Jefferson
Tagged American history, Andrea Palladio, Basmati rice, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, Jefferson's Monticello, Palladian influence on Jefferson, Presidential history, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson in Italy, Thomas Jefferson in Paris, Thomas Jefferson the Agroomist, THomas Jefferson the Architect, THomas Jefferson the gardener, US history
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The Funeral of Theodore Roosevelt
When Theodore Roosevelt died on January 6, 1919, the world was stunned. TR Dies Not only was the world stunned at the death of former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was only sixty, but perhaps TR himself would have also been … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Theodore Roosevelt
Tagged American history, Charles Evans Hughes, Feather Schwartz Foster, former President Theodore Roosevelt, former President William Howard Taft, history, President Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential history, Sagamore Hill, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator Warren G. Harding, State funerals for Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's FUneral, Theodore Roosevelt's children, US history, Vice President Thomas Marshall, White House history
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The FDRs: Home for the Holidays
After the First War When Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt married in 1905, it was a love match. Despite differences in their personalities and natures (he was outgoing, she was introverted), they truly cared deeply for each other, and found more … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tagged American history, Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR and polio, FDR and Warm Springs GA, FDR's children, FDR's estate at Hyde Park, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, history, Hyde Park NY, Presidential history, The early years of Franklin and Eleano Roosevelt, US history, White House history
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The Unexpected Death of Zachary Taylor
During the past few decades, a couple of mild kerfluffles were posed by eminent scholars who suspected that POTUS Rough and Ready may have been done in! Ol’ Zach Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was Virginia born to a middle class family … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Zachary Taylor
Tagged "Old Rough and Ready", American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Margaret Taylor, General Zachary Taylor, Henry Clay, history, Mrs. Zachary Taylor, President James K. Polk, President William Henry Harrison, President Zachary Taylor, Presidential history, The Compromise of 1850, the Mexican War, The Whig Party in the 1840s, US history, VP John Tyler, VP Millard Fillmore, White House history, Zachary Taylor
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Bess Truman: Waiting for Harry
The Old Soldier Harry Truman was 33, well past the age for a man to be a volunteer soldier, unless, of course, the country is in severe danger. In 1917, when the US entered the Great War, as it was … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Harry S Truman, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Bess Truman's father David Wallace, Bess Wallace, Bess Wallace Truman, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Harry S Truman, Harry Truman, Harry Truman enlists in WWI, Harry Truman's mother-in-law, history, Madge Gates Wallace, Madge Wallace, Presidential history, US history
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Abraham Lincoln: Quibbling Thanksgiving
In 1863 Thanksgiving Day had been a local or regional holiday for more than two centuries. Quibbling The Day Massachusetts has long maintained that a day of Thanksgiving was celebrated a year after the devout Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Berkeley Thanksgiving, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington proclaims Thanksgiving, history, John Nicolay, Lincoln and Thanksgiving, Lincoln signs Thanksgiving Proclamation, Lincoln's Secretary John Nicolay, Norman Rockwell, Pilgrim Thanksgiving, Presidential history, Sarah Josepha Hale, Sarah Josepha Hale sparks federal Thanksgiving, Secretary of State Seward, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Seward drafts Thanksgiving Proclamation, Thanksgiving Day Tradition, White House history, William H. Seward
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