THE HOME STRETCH TOWARD AMERICA’S TWO HUNDRED FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY

We are less than a month away from America’s 250th birthday! I’ll be making additional seasonal posts between now and then but let’s open up the home stretch with some of the top neglected historical moments in U.S. history.

THE PENOBSCOT CAMPAIGN: AMERICA’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR TRAGEDY. The largest land and sea offensive launched by the U.S. during the war.

AND EVEN MORE NEGLECTED BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AND MORE HERE.

THE PETTICOAT REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER 5th, 1916. The most fascinating female maneuvering this side of the Aristophanes comedy The Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazusae).

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES: LATE 1781.

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES: MARCH 1777. The title says it all.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE (1963-1964). Dramatizations of fascinating moments in American history.

FIVE NATURAL DISASTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: 1811-1937.

D-DAY AND OTHER JUNE SIXTHS IN HISTORY.

THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: BLACK WARRIORS OF THE OLD WEST.

GOVERNOR BENT ASSASSINATED: JANUARY NINETEENTH, 1847.

NELLIE BLY AND HER 1889 RACE AROUND THE WORLD.

CASIMIR PULASKI: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO.

REJECTED SUPREME COURT NOMINEES.

THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO.

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES: MARCH 1776.

TEMPLE HOUSTON: SAM HOUSTON’S SON.

WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON REALLY THE INDISPENSABLE MAN? 

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES: JANUARY 1776.

THE MICHIGAN BRIGADE: U.S. CIVIL WAR.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR: THE FIGHTING QUAKER.

1912: BATTLE OF THE THREE PRESIDENTS.

BLACK MILITARY UNIT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

THREE PRESIDENTS WHO RETURNED TO FEDERAL SERVICE.

PROFILES IN COURAGE (1964-1965). Dramatizations of real-life Americans choosing their principles over popularity.

NEGLECTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLES IN FEBRUARY 1777. 

1925: MONTH BY MONTH.

TWO FEMALE HEROES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

ARIZONA’S RED GHOST: 1883-1893.

THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD.