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3 days ago · 1870: Hoosier Cat, the Homeless Cat Adopted by Henry Ward Beecher; New Book Launch: The Bravest Pets of Gotham; 1911: The 34 Cats Atop Jack’s Restaurant on Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street; 1932: Buster, The Navy’s Wolf Mascot of Fort Lafayette, Brooklyn; 1900: The Dogs (and Cats and Rabbits and Squirrels and Parrot) of Governors Island ...
2 days ago · The churches of the Gilded Age reflected some of the changing aesthetic tastes and values of the era. Henry Ward Beecher, the Congregationalist minster of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, embodied this novel, comfortable Protestantism. R.
4 days ago · –Henry Ward Beecher If you’ve ever received an “A” on a paper, scored a goal on the court, or were chosen for a solo or lead part, then you have bathed in the glow of excellence.
2 days ago · "It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant." Henry Ward Beecher
3 days ago · They counted among their friends abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Elizabeth also trained nurses in the Union forces during the Civil War. The Blackwells built on their success by opening a medical college for women, in 1868.
2 days ago · Crowd of people listens to Henry Ward Beecher speaking from the stage during a Fourth of July celebration in Woodstock, Conn., as President Ulysses S. Grant and others sit behind him. The illustration by artist C.S. Reinhart appeared in Harper’s weekly on July 23, 1870.
2 days ago · Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, expressed the majority view: “Do your duty first to the colored people here; educate them, Christianize them, and then colonize them.”[22]
