Primary Revolutionary War Documents
Never Seen Before on the Internet! Footnote has made available, through their partnership with the National Archives, original documents relating to the American Revolution. Now including the Revolutionary War Pension Files.
Links to all of the following documents in this post:
+ Read George Washington’s Acceptance as General of the Continental Army
+ Read the first printed draft of the Constitution
+ John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival…It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations…” Read what Adams was referring to
+ Read a letter by Thomas Jefferson
+ A timeline of British colonization of America
+ Franklin wanted to call America “The United Colonies of North America”
+ Read about medical treatment during the Revolutionary War
+ Read Adams’ report on European opinion of the Revolutionary War
+ Read George Washington’s Acceptance as General of the Continental Army
+ Read Washington’s resignation speech
Note: A one week free trial to the entire database is available but does require a credit card. You are able to cancel online during that period. Otherwise, a year long subscription costs about $60. From what we can tell, the documents and collections listed above do NOT require any membership to access.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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