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On December 13, 1952, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were transferred to the National Archives. Joining the Bill of Rights, which had been in the Archives’ care since 1938, they became collectively known as the Charters of Freedom, the most precious documents in our heritage.

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) - Civil War Nurse

via Prologue: Pieces of History » Little Women in the Civil War

About 20,000 women volunteered in military hospitals during the Civil War. Unfortunately, the majority of them left little or no written evidence of their sacrifice in the war.  Louisa May Alcott, renowned 19th-century author of Little Women, was one of them, and her service is documented in a Washington, D.C., hospital’s muster roll.

As her muster roll indicates, she was stationed at the “Union Hotel U.S.A. General Hospital,” a makeshift military hospital in “Georgetown, D.C.” She served under the superintendent of Union Army nurses, Dorothea Dix, as a “female nurse” for November and December 1862 and received ten dollars pay.

Her time as a nurse later served as the foundation for her novel Hospital Sketches (1863). The novel, a fictionalized account composed from letters written home during the war, was her first bestseller.

What’s your favorite Louisa May Alcott book?

Rick Santorum thinks talking about your loved ones is a sex act

http://www.crymesyndicate.net/2011/09/in-which-i-tack-toward-dead-people.html?m=1

1943: “When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler!”

by Weimer Pursell

Printed by the Government Printing Office for the Office of Price Administration, NARA Still Picture Branch, (NWDNS-188-PP-42)

October 15, 1859: Baseball match at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken

1948: Ronald Reagan campaigns for Harry Truman. At the time, Reagan was a liberal Democrat.

1862: Sheet music for ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’

February 28, 1776. Letter to Phillis Wheatley from George Washington. Written about a week before the fortification of Dorchester Heights and the British flight from Boston.

George Washington Papers, Library of Congress

1910, Los Angeles Street Scene

William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection,
California State Archives