Published in Harper’s Weekly, December 19, 1863.
Lincoln: Address to Special Session of Congress (4 July 1861)
“Our popular Government has often been called an experiment…”
Homer: “A Bivouac Fire on the Potomac” (1861)
Harper’s Weekly of December 21, 1861 features Winslow Homer’s “A Bivouac Fire on the Potomac”: Homer depicts an encounter between diverse American cultures, centered on the evening’s entertainments of dance, fiddle, and other camp pastimes… FOR BACKGROUND, SEE:
NHSCA: Arts Education Grants
Grants to fund classroom visits, concerts, & residencies at NH schools.
To The Leaven’d Soil They Trod (Whitman)
“To the fiery fields emanative, and the endless vistas beyond—to the south and the north…”
NHH Humanities to Go: “Global Banjar!”
Grants for NH community groups.
Ho! for California! (Hutchinson, 1849)
“Composed for a group of overland emigrants, who left Massachusetts, in the spring of 1849.”
Hutchinson: “Book of Words” (1851)
Greatest hits from the first decade of their career…
Roll, Alabama, Roll (1864)
Recounting the final battle of the most famous Confederate privateer…
Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground (Parody)
“We’re drinking tonight in the old bar-room,
Give us a glass to cheer…”
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (Kittredge, 1863)
“He thought of the many dear boys already gone over to the unseen shore …”
2016 Stephen C. Foster Award
Bestow’d by The Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack.
The Hardtacks 