When this document was written, the British had just surrendered to America a year and a half before, George Washington...
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When this document was written, the British had just surrendered to America a year and a half before, George Washington...
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This letter almost certainly refers to an escaped enslaved person named Beale. To be entirely frank, I am both deeply...
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I love the law (I'm trained as a lawyer), and I love Alexandria, Virginia history (I grew up here, and I live here...
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Here's an interesting July 30, 1816 document recording trade between Alexandrians and Native Americans. It appears to...
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After Martha Washington's death, Bushrod Washington inherited Mount Vernon from his uncle George Washington and most of...
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Here is one of my favorite items in the OurHistoryMuseum collection. When this June 1, 1865 letter was written, America...
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There are many reasons why people start companies. Some identify a need. Some invent a thing. Some do it out of a...
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OurHistoryMuseum is a crowdsourced and virtual history museum that anyone can contribute to. We are prototyping with our hometown first — Alexandria, Virginia. The app will be available nationally soon. In the meantime, sign up for our blog or follow OHM on social media (both at the bottom of this page) to keep updated.
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About OurHistoryMuseum
Our mission is to save history — its preservation via digitization. We hope to capture images of old postcards, transcribe old letters, and make all photographs available for browsing. Our entire museum is virtual. Our app will be available for download sometime soon. We are producing a prototype, and our first test market will be Alexandria Virginia, our hometown. But this is just a start.
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