General James Clinton: The Frontier Veteran of Absolute Warfare
General James Clinton, a veteran of the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War, was born on August 9, 1736, in Little Britain, New York. In addition to serving ...
Smokey Bear: The Wartime Origins of a Forestry Legend
On August 9, 1944, the U.S. Forest Service launched a campaign to prevent forest fires with a poster featuring a cartoon bear named Smokey. Six years later, a cub found ...
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A Gift and a Warning: Washington’s Tactical Dilemma at the De Wint House
At the De Wint House in Orangetown (now Tappan), NY on August 9, 1780, General George Washington considered Esther Reed’s proposal: shirts and two silver dollars for each Continental soldier ...
Whitney Houston: The Newark Roots of a Musical Phenomenon
Born August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, Whitney Houston grew up surrounded by music, nurtured by her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston and cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick. With ...
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The Columbia Rediviva: Forging America’s First Global Maritime Circuit
On August 9, 1790, after a three-year voyage, The Columbia becomes the first American vessel to circumnavigate the world. The return of The Columbia Rediviva to Boston Harbor under the ...
JFK and the Peace Corps: Validating a New Frontier of Global Idealism
President Kennedy Greets Peace Corps Volunteers on the White House South Lawn. Image dated August 9, 1962. This historic gathering on the South Lawn took place just one year after ...
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Jimmy Stewart and Gloria McLean: The Private Sanctuary of a Hollywood Legend
Just Married. Jimmy Stewart and Gloria H. McLean. August 9, 1949. The quiet, elegant wedding of Jimmy Stewart and Gloria McLean at the Brentwood Presbyterian Church marked a profound, deeply ...
The Curse of Capistrano: Johnston McCulley’s Masked Avenger of the Borderlands
Published on August 9, 1919, The Curse of Capistrano introduced Zorro—Johnston McCulley’s masked avenger who defends the oppressed in a romanticized vision of Spanish California. Illustrated by pulp artist P ...
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Mary Stilwell Edison: The Sorrow Behind the Genius
Mary Stilwell Edison, Thomas Edison’s first wife, spent her short life in the glow and strain of Menlo Park. Born in Newark in 1855, she married Edison at sixteen and ...
The Inaugural Davis Cup: Dwight Davis and the Rise of International Tennis
On August 9, 1900, the first Davis Cup tennis competition was won by the United States against England in Boston. Captain and winner Dwight Davis (center) developed and donated the ...
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton: The Unsung Architect of New York’s Early Benevolence
Born August 9, 1757, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton was the wife of Alexander Hamilton for 24 years and mother to their eight children. Not widely known is that she served for ...
Hoot Gibson: The Rodeo Champion Who Conquered Silent Cinema
A photo of early American western film star Edmund Richard “Hoot” Gibson from August 9, 1924, that was published just a few days after his 32nd birthday and a day ...
Abraham Lincoln: The Weight of Gettysburg Captured in Silver and Glass
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken in Washington D.C. at Alexander Gardner’s studio on August 9, 1863. This iconic portrait captures Lincoln just five weeks after the staggering Union victory at ...
Sam Elliott: The Golden Era of the College Yearboook Frontier
Happy Birthday Sam Elliott. Born on August 9, 1944, in Sacramento, California. This 1965 college yearbook photograph captures Elliott just as he was preparing to leave the structured academic world ...
Thomas Jefferson’s Paris Dispatch: The Early Blueprint for the Bill of Rights
When he was Minister to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter from Paris to James Monroe calling for a Bill of Rights on August 9, 1788. This was more than ...
Walden: Thoreau’s Different Drummer and the Rejection of Industrialism
On August 9, 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was published. The book was the result of the two years Thoreau spent in a small cabin near Walden Pond in Concord, ...
Seconds After the Shot: Mayor Gaynor’s Historic Standoff with Death
On August 9, 1910, New York City Mayor William Jay Gaynor was shot in the neck by a disgruntled former employee while boarding a steamship in Hoboken. This photograph—taken just ...
