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1920s Fun

8/24/2013

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Sitting on top of a flagpole for days or weeks at time was a fad in the 1920s.  

Ed Kamberger, “Peak Performance: In the Flagpole-Sitting Craze, Teen Showed Prowess at Perching,” Reminisce, August/September 2010, 8.
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Brown and Booth

8/15/2013

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John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of John Brown. 

David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 310.

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Teddy Loved Nature

8/8/2013

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During Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, five national parks were created, fifty-one wildlife refuges were established, and sixteen million acres of land became protected in national forests. 

Aida D. Donald, Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 193.

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Jefferson's Draft

8/1/2013

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The Continental Congress edited Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence to lessen his emphasis on the role of the British people in creating the Revolution and instead focus on the responsibility of King George III and Parliament. 

Jefferson’s Draft
Final Draft
Analysis: Robert Middlekauff The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 328-31. 
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