St Andrew Bay Chapter, Florida, NSDAR

Today we celebrate Juneteenth, or June nineteeth, the day on which slavery ended in the last Confederate hold out. The Emancipation Proclamation declared in 1863, individuals held as slaves in states in rebellion were free, however not until Federal troops arrived in these states was the law enforced. Take for example the potter Dave, whose work is shown here, who toiled as a slave in an Edgefield, South Carolina pottery. He wasn't released from bo***ge until 1864, when Union troops marched into town. Texas became the last resort for some slave owners who didn't want to give up their human property and Confederate forces in the state remained in rebellion for over a month after the Confederate government surrendered in April 1865. It took a declaration from the Union Army in Galveston on June 19, 1865 to end slavery there. As a result, it is this date that 3.9 million former slaves and their descendants have celebrated for generations.

The NSDAR Archives is excited to share their new online exhibition for Women of Resilience: DAR Service in World War I: http://womenofresilience.dar.org/. Working on this exhibit was both exciting and inspirational, from discovering documentation about the work and service DAR members preformed during WWI, to creating the physical exhibition in the DAR Americana Room, to now working on this digital version that will continue to live on in this online format. We hope you find this online resource helpful for any future research on this topic!

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Photos: The Battle for Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. Images of some of the brave women who worked tirelessly for years to demand equal rights, and finally succeeded by having them written into law

Meet the women of the American Revolution Much has been written on the fathers of the Revolution, but what about its all-important mothers?

The History of the Magna Carta, 1215 The importance of Magna Carta and the signing by King John in 1215.

Phyllis Latour Doyle: The Forgotten Spy Whose Knitting Helped Pave the Way for D-Day The 23-year-old secret agent hid her codes in knitting to avoid detection by the N***s.