Photo: prospectors working gold placer deposits on 9 July 1850 during the California Gold Rush. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Letters from California Gold Rush ‘49er’ (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on August 15, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry tells stories about the California Gold Rush, based on letters a 49er wrote to his fiancée... (Read More)

Photo: grave of Jacob Culp (1839-1928) and his wife Hattie Loop Culp (1863-1951), Franklin Square Cemetery, Franklin Square, Columbiana County, Ohio. Credit: David and Joyce Humphrey of Ohio.

1894 Witchcraft Trials of Salem – Ohio

By Melissa Berry on August 4, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a witchcraft trial in Salem – only this one was 1894, not 1692, and it was in Ohio, not Massachusetts... (Read More)

Photo: river mining for gold on the North Fork of the American River, California, ca.1853. Credit: George H. Johnson; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Wikimedia Commons.

Our Ancestors & the California Gold Rush (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on July 25, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about the California Gold Rush, focusing on John Sutter... (Read More)

Our Ancestors & the California Gold Rush (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on July 21, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the California Gold Rush and one man in particular: Sam Brannan... (Read More)

Illustration: witchcraft trial at Salem Village. The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Salem Witchcraft (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on June 9, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about the Salem witch trials of 1692, focusing on the preservation efforts of Sarah Elizabeth Hunt... (Read More)

Salem Witchcraft (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on June 7, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the Salem witch trials of 1692 and the unearthing of the witches’ dungeon... (Read More)

Witchcraft: Salem Witch Trials, Part 2

By Melissa Berry on November 2, 2022

Melissa Berry writes more about the Mass. Legislature clearing the names of the victims found guilty of witchcraft in the Salem trials of 1692-93... (Read More)

Witchcraft: Salem Witch Trials

By Melissa Berry on October 26, 2022

Melissa Berry writes about the Massachusetts Legislature trying to clear the names of the victims found guilty of witchcraft in the Salem trials of 1692-93... (Read More)

Photo: Amelia Earhart, wearing a dress, standing beside a Merrill CIT-9 Safety Plane, c. 1928. Credit: UCLA Library; Wikimedia Commons.

A First for Amelia Earhart

By Tony Pettinato on May 16, 2022

An article about Amelia Earhart becoming the first woman to receive a pilot’s license from the National Aeronautic Association, on 16 May 1923... (Read More)

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