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The New York Academy of Sciences, founded early in the century, expanded and promoted other institutions such as the New York Botanical Garden and the American Museum of Natural History. [29] New York newspapers were read across the nation, particularly, the New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, the voice of the new Republican Party. [30]
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). 766 pp. Archdeacon, Thomas J. New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change (1976) Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (Cambridge UP, 2001). online
1785 – New York Manumission Society founded. [7] 1786 – First Mass held in St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street, the city's first Catholic Church. 1787 October 27: The Federalist Papers begin publication. [9] New-York African Free-School founded. [26] 1789 March: 1st United States Congress begins. April 30: Inauguration of Washington as U.S ...
The history of New York City (1784–1854) started with the creation of the city as the capital of the United States under the Congress of the Confederation from January 11, 1785, to Autumn 1788, and then under the United States Constitution from its ratification in 1789 until moving to Philadelphia in 1790.
President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson on the morning of his second inauguration in Washington, D.C., U.S. on January 20, 1965. Lyndon B. Johnson - 1963
Jefferson enjoyed extraordinary favor because of his appeal to American idealism. Jefferson's first inaugural address on March 4, 1801, was the first such speech in the new capital of Washington, D.C.. In it, Jefferson promised "a wise and frugal government" to preserve order among the inhabitants but would "leave them otherwise free to ...
In a 1988 CBS News/New York Times poll, voters picked the ad that had the most significant effect on them that election cycle. The Rise of Digital Efforts As we entered the 2000s, social media was ...
When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights ...