Showing posts with label July 4th. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July 4th. Show all posts
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Postcard Thursday: The End of Slavery in New York

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It is easy in modern New York to forget that New York's economic strength from the seventeenth-nineteenth century was tied to the slav...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Postcard Thursday: Happy (Belated) Independence Day

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As long-time readers of the blog know, we are only a portion of the way through " Independence Week ," so, technically, this po...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Postcard Thursday: July 2 - July 9 -- Independence Week

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A fanciful version of the felling of King George III's statue in Bowling Green Anyone who's ever taken a tour with James knows ...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Postcard Thursday: Manhattan Sightseeing Cars and the Times Tower

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Happy Actual Independence Day ! Today's postcard was mailed exactly ninety-seven years ago on July 2, 1908. It depicts what was th...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Happy Independence Day

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Happy July 4th, everyone. As readers of Inside the Apple and this blog know, today is just one of many days that holds a claim to being A...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Revolutionary Walking Tour | Sunday, July 3, at 4:00 p.m.

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As readers of our blog know , we like to think of America's birthday as not just taking place on a single day -- July 4th -- but over t...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Happy Independence Day!

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As we noted on our blog a year ago , today actually marks America's birthday, for it was on July 2, 1776, that the Second Continental Co...