Tag: history
member name: Rhetta A.
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December 18, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
Listen, I know that Gather prefers that we not send people off the site, but I am REALLY proud of my new article on Blind Willie McTell at Examiner.com. Would you please go look at it?
Georgia Blues . . .
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April 12, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
My husband found this picture on the Internet:
Who can tell me what is wrong with it?
Here's a hint: Berlin, 1936
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May 03, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
Some of you may remember that I wrote on here about my cousin Joe and how he finally gave me back some pictures that he borrowed over 15 years ago, and how thrilled I was, because all the other photos . . .
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August 18, 2009 12:00 PM EDT --
Some of you may remember reviewing this article for me, but I've not posted it in its entirety on here before. It is so long, that I'm only going to share the beginning, and invite you to go to Irish . . .
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January 29, 2009 05:08 PM EST --
Emily Warren Roebling is a woman I'd be willing to bet you've never heard of.
But you've heard of the Brooklyn Bridge, right?
Well, without Emily Warren Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge . . .
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July 02, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
You all have probably heard of the Trail of Tears, when the Cherokee Indians were sent from North Carolina and Georgia to Oklahoma by force in the 1800's.
You may also know, especially if you are from . . .
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September 27, 2009 04:18 PM EDT --
Yesterday, Ken and I went to Bulloch Hall in Roswell, GA for Free Museum Day. We had visited the outside three times before, on the Roswell Ghost Tour. But we had never been inside or . . .
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March 03, 2008 06:17 PM EST --
I am always amazed that almost everybody knows February is Black history month, but many people have no idea that March is Women's History month. CNN has a great site with lots of links for information . . .
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July 06, 2008 05:38 PM EDT --
This site has collected important American cookbooks from the 1800's into the 20th century, and made them available to view digitally. You can't click and turn the pages, but you can view each . . .
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February 26, 2008 02:39 PM EST --
In Poland, 'Unmentionables' on Display
In Opatowek, Poland, the Museum of Industry in Opatowek is displaying women's underwear from knickers and corsets of the early 20th century . . .
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November 30, 2008 04:57 PM EST --
Today, I learned a bit of Thanksgiving history, and even though the holiday is over, it's worth
sharing while it is fresh in our minds.
We all know that in America, Thanksgiving started . . .
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February 27, 2008 12:58 PM EST --
As part of my unpublished "Sex Sells" book, I was originally going to include a section called "Prostitution in America: The Early Years," but the publishers (the same ones who don't . . .
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May 19, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
For many years, and especially in the 1600's, the Irish were the main source of slaves sent from England to America and the West Indies. Did you know that?
I am Irish by heritage, and until recently, . . .
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May 29, 2008 05:36 PM EDT --
A new archaelogical project has proved that Stonehenge was a burial site for much longer than previously believed, from around the time the monuments were first being built ias early as 3000 . . .
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November 17, 2008 05:49 PM EST --
I have my Origins of Christmas Songs and Traditions on sale at Lulu as a paperback and for download, but I have decided to offer one free .pdf copy of this little book to anyone who wants one on . . .
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March 10, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
I don't have many more historical places within easy walking distance, but here's one more that's about 15 minutes walk from the house. It's off the road a bit, and I had to figure . . .
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June 23, 2009 05:40 PM EDT --
I thought it would be at least Friday before I finished my manuscript for Haunted Marietta, but I got into a groove this morning, wrote for 3 1/2 hours straight, and finished it! Now all I have to do . . .
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July 02, 2009 01:38 PM EDT --
We have a new Georgia law stating that April is officially Confederate History Month.
I could understand a "Civil War History" month. I write a lot about the Civil War myself. And here in the South, . . .
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January 31, 2009 04:59 PM EST --
At this time in history, it makes sense to look back and learn a little about life in the Great Depression and right after the Great Depression, and not just the grim stuff, but all the things that went . . .
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September 29, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
This is the second section of my photo esasay on Bulloch Hall, Roswell, GA, the childhood home of Teddy Roosevelt's mother, who was also Eleanor Roosevelt's grandmother. The first section looked at slavery; . . .
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