On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln gave his Emancipation Proclamation speech that declared, “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States,…
Category: Holidays
Happy National Arbor Day!
“Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.” -J. Sterling Morton The idea of setting aside a day to plant trees was first proposed on April 10,…
Through the Years: Celebrating the Fourth
At the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office, we enjoy time traveling through the newspapers to see what was happening in New Jersey on or around a certain date. We recently took one of these excursions to see how the Fourth…