Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 4 of Volume III
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume III Our final featured author was born the day before Halloween in 1857 […]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 3 of Volume III
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume III Our next American author was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on Halloween in 1852 […]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 2 of Volume III
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume III Our next author was born in New York City during the American Civil War and as a young girl she was influenced by the writings of classical and historical writers such as Washington Irving […]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 1 of Volume III
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume III Our first featured chilling American author (of Volume III) was born the day after Halloween in Newark, New Jersey and lived for only 28 years. […]
Ten Vintage Views of Americans and their Motorcycles
via Library of Congress, no known restrictions Mrs. Sally Halterman, the first woman to be granted a license to operate a motorcycle in the District of Columbia - September, 1937 via Library of Congress, no known restrictions Men on Motorcycles, [...]
Eight Great Images of Native American Chiefs
via Wikimedia Commons, public domain Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe holding a pipe via New York Public Library Digital Collections, public domain Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce - Native American warrior and statesman by Edward S. Curtis c. [...]
Eight thought-provoking images taken during the time of The American Civil War
via Wikimedia Commons, public domain A delegation of Native Americans on the grounds of The White House in Washington, D.C. via Wikimedia Commons, public domain A very young unidentified soldier in Confederate infantry uniform [...]
Eight Great Scenes of the Old American West
A Cheyenne chief's horse reaches for a drink of water in this Edward Curtis photo titled "The Valley of The Rosebud" via Library of Congress (1905) In this breathtaking painting titled "Emigrants Crossing the Plains" Albert Bierstadt captures sunlight shining through [...]
Unforgettable Images of Old Glory during WWII
From the time of Betsy Ross to this very day the symbol of our great nation, Old Glory has been there. In the early 1940s she hung behind a President who fearlessly addressed his citizens after the dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor. She flew on our battleships as they sailed [...]
Life of William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison c. 1813 by Rembrandt Peale, public domain via Wikimedia Commons "On the banks of the James River, in Charles City county, Virginia, is a plain mansion, around which is spread the beautiful estate of Berkeley, the birthplace of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, [...]
Benjamin Franklin’s journey to Philadelphia at 17
On January 17th, 1706 Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. When he was 17 he traveled to New York and on to Philadelphia, but his journey wasn’t easy. “Franklin arrived in New York in October, 1723, without money or letters, and at the inexperienced age of 17. He failed [...]
Andrew Jackson’s Presence of Mind
“Boys, big enough to carry muskets, incurred the dangers of men. Robert and Andrew Jackson had their guns and their horses, and were almost always in company with some armed party of their kindred and neighbors. Men could not sleep unguarded in their own houses, without danger of being surprised [...]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 4 of Volume II
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume II Our final featured author was wounded during The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the American Civil War… […]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 3 of Volume II
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume II Our third author was a member of the “Lovecraft Circle” or a group of fellow pulp fiction authors who frequently wrote to H.P. Lovecraft and each other about their spine-tingling works. […]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 2 of Volume II
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume II Our next author was a close friend to U.S. President Franklin Pierce and is one of the most important writers in American literature. According to William Wilfred Birdsall… […]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 1 of Volume II
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore: Volume II Our first featured chilling author (of Volume II) was born in Italy nearly 7 years before the American Civil War. […]
Hero Tales From American History – The Storming of Stony Point
The Storming of Stony Point by Theodore Roosevelt http://ia800302.us.archive.org/9/items/hero_tales_from_american_history_dl_0905_librivox/herotales_07_lodgeroosevelt.mp3 In their ragged regimentals Stood the old Continentals, Yielding not, When the grenadiers were lunging, And like hail fell the plunging Cannon-shot; When the files Of the isles From the smoky night encampment bore the banner of the [...]
Hero Tales From American History – Bennington
Bennington by Henry Cabot Lodge http://ia800302.us.archive.org/9/items/hero_tales_from_american_history_dl_0905_librivox/herotales_05_lodgeroosevelt.mp3 We are but warriors for the working-day; Our gayness and our guilt are all besmirch'd With rainy marching in the painful field; There 's not a piece of feather in our host (Good argument, I hope, we shall not fly), [...]
Hero Tales From American History – The Battle of Trenton
THE BATTLE OF TRENTON by Henry Cabot Lodge http://ia800302.us.archive.org/9/items/hero_tales_from_american_history_dl_0905_librivox/herotales_04_lodgeroosevelt.mp3 And such they are — and such they will be found: Not so Leonidas and Washington, Their every battle-field is holy ground Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone. How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound I [...]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 4
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore Part 4 Heartfelt History of The Week – 10/23/2016 We conclude our October series with a well-known American author who was born in 1783 and named after the first President of The United States. He like Poe, Lovecraft and Chambers lived [...]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 3
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore Part 3 Heartfelt History of The Week 10/16/2016 This writer was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1865, the last year of the American Civil War. He started as an illustrator after becoming well-versed in the fine arts at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions [...]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 2
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore Part 2 This week’s chilling American author shared a number of life events that were eerily similar to our first featured writer, Edgar Allan Poe. He too was born in New England, would lose his father during childhood, lived in New York City for [...]
Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore – Part 1
Heartfelt History Presents Chilling American Authors and Their Spine-Tingling Stories of Yore Heartfelt History of The Week 10/1/2016 Our first chilling American author was born in Boston, Massachusetts just three-and-a-half years before America’s second bout with the British Empire in the War of 1812. […]