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BenjaminHarrison https://www.dailykos.com/news/BenjaminHarrison News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:15:50 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:15:50 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Indians 101: President Benjamin Harrison and Indian Policy https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/7/17/1314623/-Indians-101-President-Benjamin-Harrison-and-Indian-Policy In 1889 Benjamin Harrison, an attorney, Presbyterian church leader, and Civil War Brigadier General, was elected President of the United States. Harrison, a Republican, defeated incumbent President Grover Cleveland. In his brief inaugural address, Harrison credited the nation’s growth to the influences of education and religion (meaning Christianity). For his cabinet appointments, Harrison considered three important criteria: (1) Civil War service, (2) membership in the Presbyterian Church, and (3) Indiana citizenship. rss@dailykos.com (Ojibwa) AmericanIndians BenjaminHarrison History Indianpolicy Indians101 NativeAmericanNetroots _1314623 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:25:39 +0000 Indians 101: President Benjamin Harrison and Indian Reservations https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/7/3/1311466/-Indians-101-President-Benjamin-Harrison-and-Indian-Reservations In 1887, Congress passed the General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) which had the intent of assimilating Indians by making them land-owning farmers. The idea of the Dawes Act was to break up the reservations by giving each Indian family an allotment of land, similar to the homesteads given to non-Indian settlers. This act guided much of the Indian policy during the Benjamin Harrison administration (1889-1892). rss@dailykos.com (Ojibwa) AmericanIndians BenjaminHarrison History Indians101 NativeAmericanNetroots _1311466 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:14:59 +0000 Indians 101: President Benjamin Harrison and Indian Education https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/5/8/1297840/-Indians-101-President-Benjamin-Harrison-and-Indian-Education When Benjamin Harrison became President in 1889, he appointed Thomas Jefferson Morgan as his Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Like most of his predecessors, Morgan had no experience in Indian affairs, little contact with actual Indians, and no understanding of Indian cultures. He was, however, a Baptist minister and an educator with a fervent belief that Christianity held the solution to the “Indian problem.” With regard to his philosophy of Indian education, Morgan wrote: <blockquote>“When we speak of the education of the Indians we mean the comprehensive training and instruction which will convert them into American citizens, put within their reach the blessings which the rest of us enjoy, and enable them to compete successfully with the white man on his own ground and with his own methods. Education is to be the medium through which the rising generation of Indians are to be brought into the fraternal and harmonious relationship with their white fellow-citizens and with them enjoy the sweets of refined homes, the delight of social intercourse, the emoluments of commerce and trade, the advantages of travel, together with the pleasures that come from literature, science, and philosophy, and the solace and stimulus afforded by a true religion.” </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (Ojibwa) AmericanIndians BenjaminHarrison boardingschools Education History Indians101 NativeAmericanNetroots _1297840 Thu, 08 May 2014 15:28:46 +0000 * NEW DAY * - Best prank you ever pulled, or was pulled on you? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/5/1199260/--NEW-DAY-Best-prank-you-ever-pulled-or-was-pulled-on-you <table border="1"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFCC66"> <center><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/internetz/NewDayBanner500x100text.jpg" width="570" border="0" alt="New Day Grand Canyon Sunrise Banner" /></center> <center>Every day is a new day and with that, a new opportunity. EVERYONE is welcome and please join us each morning at 7:30 AM PACIFIC to tell us what you're working on, share your show & tell, vent, whatever you want...   ...this is an open thread. Nothing is off topic.</center> </td> </tr> </table> <center> <h2>Have you ever played an especially good prank on someone, like <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/16/929482/-In-Which-I-Prank-mrcreek-AND-answer-DK4-questions">this time I fooled pNut</a>? Has someone ever played a good April Fool's or other prank on you?</h2> </center> <blockquote> <center><big>Today's Quiz Consider the following news stories:</big></center> <ol> <li>Google launched Google Nose Beta, the latest search function with a database of over 15 million scentibytes.</li> <li>YouTube announced it was shutting down its service in order to select the best YouTube video ever from its database of eight years.</li> <li>Virgin Airlines announced their first glass-bottomed plane, coinciding with their first domestic flight over Scotland.</li> <li>Saying that it's been 125 years since our last bearded President, Benjamin Harrison, a new PAC was launched this week to support bearded candidates for President from across the political spectrum.</li> <li>Twitter announced a new double-tiered service named twttr, in which consonants are free. Premium Twitter will allow vowels for a base fee of $5.00 a month.</li> <li>a U.S. military news release says it will start training cats and integrating them into the military police. The first fearless feline looks remarkably like Grumpy Cat. </li> </ol> <div class="ct"> So, which of the above wasn't an April Fool's prank?<select> <option>Click for answer</option> <option>4. For reals. Reported in The Hill.</option> </select>. </div> </blockquote> Bonus April Fool's Prank: A White House announcement made on Monday, April 1st, 2013: <center><object width="500" height="281"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5byDhm-E-YE?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5byDhm-E-YE?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="281" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" /></object></center> <center><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/internetz/NEWDAY-Divider.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></center> <center> <blockquote>Latest Updates on Kossack Regional Meet-Up News Below the New Day sunrise cloud</blockquote> </center> rss@dailykos.com (smileycreek) April Fool's Day AprilFoolsDay BenjaminHarrison Community Google GrumpyCat NavajosNewDay NEWDAYTeam Pranks Recommended SFKossacks smileycreeksNewDay Twitter VirginAirlines _1199260 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:25:16 +0000 The Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election, part 12 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/4/22/969250/-The-Care-Feeding-and-Reproduction-of-the-American-Election-part-12 This is a surprisingly short section at the moment, given the subject. rss@dailykos.com (Ponder Stibbons) Al Franken AlFranken AndrewJackson AndrewJohnson BenjaminHarrison California CalvinCoolidge Congress DwightEisenhower Elections FranklinRoosevelt GeorgeWashington GroverCleveland JamesCox JohnQuincyAdams JohnTyler Mexican-AmericanWar New York NewYork Norm Coleman NormColeman Ohio PaulWellstone Presidency RichardNixon RobertKennedy RutherfordHayes SecretService ThomasMarshall UlyssesGrant WalterMondale WarrenHarding WHIG WilliamHenryHarrison WilliamTaft WoodrowWilson WorldWar2 ZacharyTaylor _969250 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:13:43 +0000 Obama's likely reelection https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/8/750806/-Obama-s-likely-reelection I've written about this before, and I'd like to explain my current thoughts, especially after UpstateDem's controversial diary yesterday predicting an Obama defeat in 2012. rss@dailykos.com (Kylopod) 1856presidentialelection 1888presidentialelection 1892presidentialelection 1980PresidentialElection 2004PresidentialElection 2012presidentialelection AmericanHistory Barack Obama BarackObama BenjaminHarrison DavidBrooks ElectoralCollege FDR George W. Bush GeorgeWBush GreatDepression GroverCleveland HerbertHoover JamesKPolk JimmyCarter LandSlide PoliticalParties Popular Vote PopularVote Predictions presidents Republican Party RepublicanParty RonaldReagan _750806 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:28:22 +0000 The Inaugural Address, Part 2 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/5/677027/-The-Inaugural-Address-Part-2 In case you missed the first diary in this series, you can link to it <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/4/84425/50833/400/676916">here</a>. In that episode, I examined the history of the US Presidential Inaugural Address from George Washington through James Buchanan, or the two periods I call "Beginnings" and "Antebellum." Part 2 will cover "Lincoln" (he gets his own era) and "Reconstruction," which covers Grant through McKinley. (Andrew Johnson did not give a formal inaugural address.) Links to all presidential inauguration addresses can be found at <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/124/">Bartleby.com</a>. Many thanks to all of you who have read, recommended, or commented on these diaries. I hope you enjoy them. rss@dailykos.com (Dragon5616) AbrahamLincoln BenjaminHarrison GroverCleveland InauguralAddress Inauguration JamesGarfield presidents RutherfordBHayes Teaching UlyssesSGrant WilliamMcKinley _677027 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:58:11 +0000 The media doesn't know shit! Obama is the 43rd president! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/7/657036/-The-media-doesn-t-know-shit-Obama-is-the-43rd-president For the past four days, we've been hearing about the historic nature of President-Elect Obama's election (I still can't get over saying that; it's so awesome).  And yet I continue to hear the most ridiculous historical fallacy that we all hear every four years.  "Barack Obama is the 44th President." That is no the truth. Follow me over the flip... rss@dailykos.com (nklein) 1894PullmanStrike AbrahamLincoln AndrewJackson AndrewJohnson Barack Obama BarackObama BenjaminHarrison Bill Clinton BillClinton CalvinCoolidge Chester A. Arthur ChesterAArthur DwightDEisenhower FranklinDelanoRoosevelt FranklinPierce George W. Bush GeorgeHWBush GeorgeWashington GeorgeWBush GeraldFord GroverCleveland HarryTruman HerbertHoover JamesBuchanan JamesGarfield JamesKPolk JamesMadison JamesMonroe JimmyCarter John Adams JohnAdams JohnFKennedy JohnQunicyAdams JohnTyler LyndonBJohnson MartinVanBuren MillardFillmore RichardNixon RonaldReagan Rutherford B. Hayes RutherfordBHayes ShermanAnti-TrustAct TheodoreRoosevelt ThomasJefferson Ulysses S. Grant UlyssesSGrant Warren G. Harding WarrenGHarding WilliamHenryHarrsion WilliamHTaft WilliamMcKinley WoodrowWilson ZacharyTaylor _657036 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:18:41 +0000 Edwards, Gore, and Losing Vice Presidential Candidates (w/Poll) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/28/285044/-Edwards-Gore-and-Losing-Vice-Presidential-Candidates-w-Poll I don't mean to rain on Senator John Edwards' announcement to run for the presidency in 2008.  He is an honorable and decent man.  And I respect and admire his many political skills.  As for his signature issue - poverty - nothing should be more urgent given the shame and disgrace we witnessed collectively as a nation last year during Hurricane Katrina.  That message of inclusiveness certainly <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116725461738460888-DKBN5q33LHyc29eGAxKupKab_YE_20070126.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top">resonates with many people  </a>. <blockquote> Those cheering on Mr. Edwards's antipoverty crusade include party strategist Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager in his 2000 presidency bid.  Recalling Mr. Edwards's past emphasis on the "Two Americas" theme, she says: "In 2004, that message went largely unheard.  To his credit, he kept at it.  And Katrina demonstrated the validity of that message." </blockquote> But, what does history tell us about his chances of securing the nomination and winning the presidency in 2008? rss@dailykos.com (JekyllnHyde) 2008 elections 2008elections AlGore AndrewJackson BenjaminHarrison George W. Bush GeorgeWBush GroverCleveland John Edwards JohnEdwards JohnQuincyAdams President Primaries Rutherford B. Hayes RutherfordBHayes SamuelTilden Vice President VicePresident _285044 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:32:45 +0000