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MEMORIAL DAY 2015 – WE HONOR OUR FALLEN PATRIOTS

2015-05-23

As Memorial Day moves nearer, I reflect on the loss of my Grandfather. He served in the Navy in World War II and in the Air Force during the Korean conflict. He was someone we all looked up to and respected him not only as our Grandfather but as a Patriot that had risked all for …

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HENRY JOHNSON AND THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS

2015-05-23

In my last post, I neglected to go into detail about the Harlem Hellfighters, a New York National Guard Unit comprised entirely of black recruits. I have attached a History Channel video clip tells their story and story of Henry Johnson. This pre-civil rights era is truly a black eye in America’s History. June 2, 2015, it …

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IT’S ABOUT TIME OUR LOCAL AMERICAN PATRIOT IS HONORED BY HIS OWN COUNTRY

2015-05-18

It is amazing to me that it has taken the United States of America so long to recognize the valor of its own Patriot. France recognized Henry Johnson’s sacrifice years ago with the Cross of War. These photos were published by the Times Union in August 2014 as part of a collection of photos featuring the …

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IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY AND A GOOD PLACE TO BEGIN

2015-05-13

Well, it is beautiful in the North East United States. After a long winter, the barren trees have just decided to POP with color. Rolling over the hills of Massachusetts and eastern New York along the I90 corridor is a sight to see. As I drift north and west from the Springfield, MA area, heading …

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Hey You Found Our New Blog Site

2015-04-29

Hello everyone and welcome to our new site, Patriot Tickets New England. We hope you will check back with us soon and see what we have added for your reading enjoyment.

How butterfly wings helped a new collecting initiative take flight 2020-02-21
The museum has created a new collecting initiative focused on how undocumented activists are leading fights for political representation. On face value, it seems unusual that people without citizenship could be a force in government. It’s unusual but not unprecedented. In fact, these new acquisitions will add to existing collections that highlight how people—without citizenship […]
Does an amendment give you the right to vote? 2020-01-31
In 2020, the Fifteenth Amendment—the first voting rights amendment added to the U.S. Constitution—celebrates its 150th anniversary. You’ve likely heard, perhaps on the news or in the classroom, that the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave or granted African American men the right to vote. It’s a turn of phrase that works as a […]
Thinking about impeachment like a historian 2020-01-21
This week, the third impeachment trial of a sitting U.S. president begins. As we prepare to bear witness to this historic moment, we spoke with political history curator Jon Grinspan about how historians look at impeachment. What is impeachment?Impeachment is actually a vote to put the president on trial, not a trial or a conviction. The sitting […]
100 years later, do we think Prohibition was good for the nation? 2020-01-17
January 17, 1920, was an important day in American history. Why? Because on that day the grand social experiment called Prohibition was first enforced. The Volstead Act, the law that put enforcement teeth into the Eighteenth Amendment, banning intoxicating beverages, went into effect. The transformation of the nation from an alcoholic republic to a dry […]
Our most-read blog posts of 2019 2019-12-30
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the 75th anniversary of D-Day, and the 150th anniversary of completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Our most-read blog posts of 2019 marked those anniversaries and went beyond. How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact Indigenous communities?When the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, some people celebrated the railroad as a […]
A winning design: Prang’s Christmas card contests of the 1880s 2019-12-23
Have you ever wondered how companies pick their holiday card designs? How do they know what will sell? During the 1880s, Boston lithographer Louis Prang had an innovative answer: contests. He sponsored contests for holiday card designs, where both judges from the art world and consumers had the opportunity to help select the best designs.Prang […]
The little Jeep that could 2019-12-20
What weighs a quarter ton, has four wheels, was the first of its kind, and was built in Pennsylvania? The Bantam Jeep Prototype of course!As World War II swept across Europe, the war department began planning for hostilities. One important item on their equipment list was an agile all-terrain vehicle to move troops and goods […]
A soldier remembers Operation Just Cause 2019-12-19
When George B. Hughes II shipped out for army basic training in September of 1988, both he and the world were more focused on the looming specter of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union than on the shifting political landscape of Central America. But in just a year he would be […]
What did 1889 sound like? 2019-12-19
Q: What’s cylindrical, made of wax, and part of one of history’s great showdowns?A: These records in the museum collection with audio recorded 130 years ago.Three wax cylinders recorded in 1889 from the museum’s collection.One of these records was created at the top of the Eiffel Tower, another in a free-floating balloon, and the third […]
Kerr Eby and the First World War 2019-12-19
“About the prints … I make no comment, save that they were made from the indelible impressions of war. They are not imaginary. I saw them.” Kerr Eby wrote about his World War I etchings.Eby reflected in the 1930s, “What I do remember and brilliantly—is what [war] looked like and felt like. The men like […]