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Publisher
[Department of Public Instruction]
Pub. Date
1900.
Description
Suggestions to Colorado public schools for a celebration in honor of the U.S.S. Constitution, intended to raise money for the restoration of Old Ironsides. Contains a very brief description of the ship and its 1812 battle with the British frigate Guerriere. Includes a letter to the governor of Colorado from the United Daughters of 1812 requesting the collection of funds and a supportive letter to the Superintendent of Public Instruction from Governor...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the , recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger...
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