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History is a current event.
It is happening and evolving all the time.
Hence, It is a vital part of who we are as individuals and as a nation. It can also give us tools and clues to discover what we may become. The study of the past is directly linked to the present and the future.
I stole these
words from teacher Christine Sermons at Merritt Brown Middle School. I couldn't have said it better myself, and it explains why I'm so fascinated by history. It's a living breathing thing. An important artifact of American history is lost and the White House has put out a call for help to find it.
The Declaration of Sentiments was drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton for the first women's rights convention, July
1848, in Seneca Falls, NY.
The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments was patterned after the Declaration of Independence, but Stanton proclaimed all men and women were created equal, Below are a few of the eighteen "injuries and usurpations" she said men committed against women. - He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.
- He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
- He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she
earns.
- He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education—all colleges being closed against her.
- He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead
a dependent and abject life.
At right, a photo of the document as printed by Frederick Douglass after the convention. He took the Declaration to Rochester, NY to publish it in his newspaper The North Star, and as far as we know, it was never seen again. Douglas
was one of 30 men who attended the Women's Rights Convention and signed the declaration.
Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, has started a real-life National Treasure hunt to try to locate the document, if it still exists.
On the White House blog, Megan says "Have a tip or an idea as to where the sentiments might be located? Share that with us here, and post on your social channels using the hashtag #FindTheSentiments." This week the actual site of the Salem witch hangings has been confirmed. A team of scholars used eyewitness accounts combined with modern technology to settle the question. See details a video created
by The Washington Post.
During the infamous summer of 1692, the first to die was Bridget Bishop, an older woman known as a gossip, and heedless of the Puritans'
rigid standards for women's sexuality.
Bishop told the court, she was "as innocent as the child unborn" but on the morning of June 10, she became the first person hanged. Five people were sentenced and hanged for witchcraft in July, five more in August and eight in September.
A huge Thank you! to everyone who voted last week in my little survey to help me choose my promotion strategy for Fannie Never Flinched. I'm taking your advice. The most votes came in for:
A- This book is the story of Fannie Sellins, a union organizer shot down in cold blood by company gunmen during a Pennsylvania coal strike. A crowd of people saw the shooting, but the murders got away scot-free.
But, once again, the release date for the book has been changed.
It is now November 2016.
So I'm keeping busy working on my new project. This week I learned to use speech recognition software to help speed up the process of taking research notes. The first day was very frustrating and time consuming. But day two, I got rolling and I'm so
happy to have a new tool play with.
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