Month: June 2020

Episode 2: The Missing African-American Medal of Honor Recipient is now available on YouTube!

June 27, 2020 griffith-donald Uncategorized 0 Comments

Enjoy podcasts but need some visual stimuli? Check out Episode 2, about the first African-American Medal of Honor recipient, on YouTube. It has tons of photos, drawings, documents and other original sources for the podcast. Don’t just listen to the podcast, watch it come alive as a documentary.

Thomas Jefferson, June 1776, Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.

The Declaration of Independence is Missing!

June 16, 2020 griffith-donald Declaration of Independence 0 Comments

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson went to work drafting the Declaration of Independence. After some minor edits by others on the “Committee of Five,” it was ready to be presented to the Second Continental Congress. Jefferson likely read it aloud to the Congress on Friday, June 28. Not being as impressed as we are today with his words, the Congress ordered it to “lie on the table” while they attended to more pressing business.

Hop over to the Frog Blog to learn a little more.

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