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Meet
Amazing Americans: William Henry Harrison
Designed for elementary and middle-school students, America's
Story provides a variety of stories about William Henry
Harrison, including "Harrison's
Military Career", "American
Politics Forever Changed", and "The
Log Cabin Campaign of 1840".
Chronicling
America
This site allows you to search and view millions of historic American newspaper pages from 1836-1922. Search
this collection to find newspaper articles that reference
William Henry Harrison from this time period.
American
Treasures of the Library of Congress
American Treasures of the Library of Congress is an unprecedented
exhibition of the rarest, most interesting, or significant
items relating to America's past, drawn from every corner
of the world's largest library. The exhibition includes
items about Harrison's
Inauguration.
Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Search PPOC using the subject heading Harrison,
William Henry, 1773-1841 to find digital images related
to Harrison, such as prints, photographs, and political
cartoons. Search
all text fields in PPOC using the phrase William
Henry Harrison to locate additional images.
December
4, 1619
On December 4, 1619, thirty-eight colonists arrived from
England and ventured ashore to settle the land grant along
the James River that became known as the Berkeley Hundred
(Berkeley Plantation). They observed a prayer of Thanksgiving
for their safe passage to the New World.
Berkeley
Plantation, built for the family of Benjamin Harrison
IV in 1726, was one of several impressive James River
plantations constructed during the first part of the seventeenth
century.
May
9, 1813
On May 9, 1813, General
William Henry Harrison turned back a siege of Fort
Meigs by Shawnee military leader Tecumseh
and British General Henry A. Proctor. The fort, built
under the supervision of Harrison
in order to protect northwest Ohio and Indiana from British
invasion, was located on the Maumee River above Toledo,
Ohio.
William
Henry Harrison Inaugural
Gerard Gawalt, an American history specialist in the
Manuscript Division, discusses Harrison's inaugural address.
William
Henry Harrison Papers
Gerard Gawalt, an American history specialist in the
Manuscript Division, examines important documents within
the William Henry Harrison Papers at the Library of Congress.
This portal includes an article about William Henry Harrison
entitled "An
Incredibly Long-Winded President... Who Wasn't President
for Very Long."
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