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Month: May 2015

Martha Washington: The First First Lady

Posted on 5 May 201511 May 2023 by Historical Notionist

A review of the book Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days  written by Geraldine Brooks and published in the year 1900. This text was written as part of audio visual presentation featuring Martha Washington for Patriot Lessons TV, recorded in 2015. Dames and Daughters is a book of nine chapters profiling nine different women of colonial…

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1812 Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
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