Postcard History

July 27, 2024

Tag: Pennsylvania

  • It’s Old Home Week!

    It’s Old Home Week!

    Bill Burton

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    Small towns in New England and the Mid-Atlantic lost population as westward migration and the lure of factory work drew young people away. Old Home Week attempted to lure them back.

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  • Woman Suffrage Liberty Bell

    Woman Suffrage Liberty Bell

    Ken Florey

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    When Abigail Adams penned a letter in 1776 to her husband, congressman John Adams, asking him to please “remember the ladies” as he and his fellow founding fathers were preparing our nations new code of laws, she undeniably meant to include women with the men, the mothers with the fathers and the daughter with the…

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  • James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States

    James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States

    Editor’s Staff

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    Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”

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Past Article

Editor’s Staff
May 19, 2022 6 Comments
Early in the 1940s there were women in America who recognized the need for idle hands to get to work. It was not a new idea, but when FDR signed the bill that made the W.A.A.C. into the W.A.C. it was a new way for women to serve their country. Many joined-up and helped win the war.

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