(WHTM) — On this day in 1789, President George Washington issued his first proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving for Thursday, Nov. 26, in honor of the establishment of the new Constitution, ...
In case anyone's failed to notice, this year marks the 200th anniversary of the 'French Revolution'. This is usually seen as a series of political and social events beginning with the storming of the ...
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was a landmark US federal law. It established the detailed structure of the federal judiciary of the United States. This included the Supreme Court, circuit, and district ...
Sponsored by the National Historical Publications [and Records] Commission and the George Washington University Vol. <10-14> edited by Charlene Bangs Bickford, Kenneth R. Bowling, and Helen E. Veit ...
Historian Allen (Tories), who died in 2018, recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. (“Everything that happened in that epochal ...