Historical society

On this day in 1918.. (November 11)

Crowded ships like this brought back troops for months after V-Day

Savannah, GA, October 10, 2023 – The Georgia Historical Society (GHS) recently announced that it has achieved its fundraising goal for its Next Century Initiative (NCI). Launched in 2015 under the leadership of late campaign chairman Vince Dooley, the NCI campaign raised $15 million to renovate and expand the GHS…

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Photo Courtesy Utah Historical Society Early Mormon missionaries in Mississippi, 1897.

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In their rigid enforcement of community standards, New England’s Puritan punishments often often included the bilbo, the cleft stick, the brand, the ear crop and the letter, scarlet and otherwise. In…

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Portrait of John Knox by John Sartain, ca. 1842. Click for full image. [Image no. 2501]John Knox (ca. 1514-1572) was a leader of the Reforming party in his native Scotland. Knox studied with John Calvin in Geneva and took Calvin’s teachings back home with him to Scotland. The Presbyterian Church traces its ancestry back primarily to Knox in Scotland and to England, and so Knox is widely regarded as the founder of Presbyterianism.Educated in Glasgow and possibly at St. Andrews, Knox received…

George Henry Boughton (1833–1905), Pilgrims Going to Church, 1867. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection, S-117 Called the “Painter of New England Puritanism,” Boughton often took inspiration from books, relying here on William Henry Bartlett’s 1853 history, The Pilgrim Fathers. This image of colonists solemnly processing through a snowy wood to worship in the distant settlement received warm praise when it debuted at the Royal Academy in London in 1867.