First Native American Newspaper
On February 21, 1828, the first Native American newspaper, utilizing Sequoyah’s Cherokee Syllabary, was printed.
On February 21, 1828, the first Native American newspaper, utilizing Sequoyah’s Cherokee Syllabary, was printed.
Newspaper editor and politician William Allen White was born on February 10, 1868, in Emporia, Kansas.
Writer Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts.
John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, at his family’s rural homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He became a poet, journalist, and abolitionist.
Author Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly embarked on a trip around the globe, inspired by Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
On October 14, 1926, A.A. Milne published the first collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota.