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14 08, 2017

Thanksgiving becomes a national holiday

By |2019-11-18T07:50:21-08:00August 14th, 2017|North America, Religion|Comments Off on Thanksgiving becomes a national holiday

Sarah Hale, who made Thanksgiving a national holiday Thanksgiving in the 1700s In the 1700s, most of the thirteen colonies had public Thanksgiving feasts at least once a year. Sometimes people held them more than [...]

14 08, 2017

Anne Hutchinson – A Puritan leader

By |2019-01-27T19:13:57-08:00August 14th, 2017|North America, Religion|Comments Off on Anne Hutchinson – A Puritan leader

Boston in the time of Anne Hutchinson Anne Hutchinson's backstory Anne Hutchinson was born in 1603, the same year that Queen Elizabeth died. Her father was a Puritan minister in England. Like Margaret Cavendish about [...]

9 08, 2017

Hopewell history – Native Americans

By |2019-08-19T22:01:16-07:00August 9th, 2017|History, Native American|Comments Off on Hopewell history – Native Americans

Hopewell Mound in Ohio When was the Hopewell? About 200 BC, people - including the Adena people - formed a culture called the Hopewell culture. (It's named after a farm where archaeologists [...]

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