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Posted by: Michelle Krowl
In an 1861 letter to her mother, sixteen-year-old Louisa Russell recounted a Thanksgiving feast that battled against her "considerably tight" clothing.
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
In summer 1861, William J. Rhees, chief clerk of the Smithsonian Institution, wrote to his wife about Professor Thaddeus Lowe’s balloon experiments on the National Mall . . . including the reason one ascent never got off the ground. Because (almost) nothing in Washington happens without first securing a purchase order or an appropriation.
Posted in: Aviation, Civil War, Science and Technology, War and Society
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Experience Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4, 1865, through selected scenes from the day.
Posted in: Civil War, War and Society