#OTD 1787 the full text of the #Constitution was printed for the public for the first time in the "The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser", issue No. 2690, published by Dunlap & Claypoole, Philadelphia.
Sept.17 marks the anniversary of the signing of the #Constitution. #JamesMadison wrote to #ThomasJefferson in March 1787, when plans were underway for the #ConstitutionalConvention, “What may be the result of this political experiment cannot be foreseen.”
11 days before the Constitution was signed, Madison wrote Jefferson, “If the present moment be lost it is hard to say what may be our fate.”
#OTD in 1845, 250 veterans of the Battle of Baltimore were honored in Washington DC on the battle’s
31 st anniversary – and they took time to honor their wartime First Lady.
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Dolley Madison,
by then 77 years old, had become an icon of an earlier time in American history.
William Elwell, 1848 portrait of Dolley Madison, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Join Montpelier’s Sr. Research Historian Hilarie Hicks as she discusses Montpelier’s duPont family history, shows personal photos of the duPonts at Montpelier, and reveals some surprising connections between the Madisons and duPonts.
What does a #President do if the #WhiteHouse is uninhabitable?
Rent a new house! That's what #JamesMadison did on Sept. 8, 1814, moving into the #OctagonHouse after British troops burned the White House.
National Photo Company collection, Library of Congress, 1910-1926.
#OTD 1787 the #ConstituionalConvention appointed a Committee of Style “to revise the
stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House," including #JamesMadison.
Gouverneur Morris was the lead writer, penning “We, the People of the United States...”
Marion duPont Scott, the last private owner of #Montpelier, died at home #OTD in 1983, at the age of 89.
In her will, Mrs. Scott expressed a desire that her heirs would transfer Montpelier to The National Trust for Historic Preservation so that it could be restored & furnished to the time period of #JamesMadison. #sschat#histodons#HistoryTeacher#apgov#ushistory@academicchatter
“Orange. September Court. 1771.”
This document in the Montpelier Collection features the remains of #JamesMadison’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past #250 years.
Court document, MF2014.22.2a-c, The Montpelier Collection.
Tomorrow kicks off Montpelier's 2nd annual #Constitution Month!
Throughout Sept. we will be releasing a new #podcast series, host #expert panels, Constitution and #BillofRights tours & on-site activities.
Guests can visit Montpelier for free on Constitution Day, Sept. 16th!
#OTD 1787 Charles Pinkney moved “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the authority of the U. States." Federal officials wouldn't have to pledge belief in God, Christianity, or Protestantism.
#OTD at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Pierce Butler proposed what became known as the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring the return of any enslaved person who escaped to another state.
Weeks earlier, Madison wrote his father, speculating on the whereabouts of escaped slave Anthony. #sschat#histodons#HistoryTeacher#apgov#ushistory@academicchatter
This morning, while digging a pod of shovel test pits at the Overseers House on the Home Farm, one of our field interns Alyssa came upon this great example of a coat button with the shank still intact!
#OTD 1787, the #ConstitutionalConvention debated when to end the slave trade.
Madison objected to the proposed date of 1808, explaining, “Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves."
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Photo of “E Pluribus Unum,” mosaic by Rebecca Warde, courtesy of Montpelier.
“Time-Tested Tactics: 7 Historic Ways to Beat the Heat” from #NTHP
How did people stay cool in the past, and what #architectural features helped manage #temperature where they lived?