American History November Anniversaries November 7 Election Day November 9 Mayflower Arrives at Cape Cod, Mass. (1620) November 10 Congress establishes U.S. Marine Corps (1775) November 11 Veterans Day November 17 Articles of Confederaton submitted to states (1777) November 23 Thanksgiving Day November 24 American Indian Heritage Day November 28 Giving Day

 Remember to Vote  Here’s a little history about voting:  Americans first began the custom of weekday voting in 1845, when Congress passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election Day.  Before then, states were allowed to hold elections any time they pleased within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December, […]

By Grover Brinkman  Since civilization was first accredited, man has made his mark, turning a symbol, logo or caricature into a statistic. Our first Americans, the Indian, scrawled his pictographs on cliff walls; our first explorers, the breed of trappers called Mountain Men, scrawled names and dates on stone or wood, attesting he had been here. The American hobo of […]

 By Barb Azczek  American Political Items Collectors  Photos featuring political candidates have been very popular since 1860. Ferrotypes, also known as tintypes, were one of the earliest forms of photography.  They are pictures on tin or iron in a decorative frame and were first used in the 1860 election.  Since four candidates, including Abraham Lincoln ran in the 1860 race, […]