This Thanksgiving holiday we decided to look to the past to see what kind of articles were published in Santa Barbara around the Thanksgiving holiday over 150 years ago.
The oldest edition we could find was the Santa Barbara Post from 1868.
To ground us in space and time, here are a few notable things that were going on in the year 1868:
- Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder
- Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horatio Seymour in the Presidential election to take the place of President Andrew Johnson
- The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
- The first volume of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women is published.
- Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina are all readmitted to the U.S.
Exciting times!…