Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site, Columbia, contains the grave of Missouri's 22nd governor (18751877), Charles Hardin, along with descendants of George Jewell. The most well-known member of the Jewell family buried in the cemetery, William Jewell, died while establishing a college in Liberty, MO, that bears his name.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
Professor Robert E. Gilbert suggests that Calvin Coolidge's popularly perceived inertia during the presidency may have been caused by extreme depression. Gilbert examines Coolidge's life using the framework of tragedy and mental illness.
Hopkins was 10 times Governor of Rhode Island and signed the Declaration of Independence. His 1707 home is one of Providence's oldest surviving buildings.
The house offers tours.
The Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum is located within the adulthood residence of Civil War officer Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914). Best known for his strategic command of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg, Chamberlain also commanded the Union troops during the Confederate infantry's official surrender to the Union, served as President of Bowdoin College, and was elected Governor of Maine. Topics addressed include Chamberlain's family, career, and life story.
The museum offers guided tours of the museum and self-guided walking tours of Brunswick.
A work-in-progress, this collection offers letters and diary entries by Robert "King" Carter (16631732), a wealthy landowner and leading public figure in Virginia. Educated in England, Carter inherited and acquired more than 300,000 acres in the Northern Neck Proprietary between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. Carter, who owned nearly 1,000 slaves, served as a member of the Council of Virginia and as acting governor of the colony.
The site presently contains transcripts of all existing Robert Carter texts, including approximately 800 letters, written between 1701 and 1727, diary entries covering 17221726, and wills. Each document provides both modern and original spellings, and hyperlinked notes offering identifying information for more than 130 persons, places, and things. A 2,200-word biography of Carter, a 2,100-word essay on the Northern Neck Proprietary, and a bibliography of nearly 80 titles are also available.
The Ferguson Mansion was built in 1907. T.B. Ferguson was appointed to serve as Oklahoma's sixth territorial governor by President Theodore Roosevelt and governed from November 1901 until January 1906, longer than any other territorial governor. In 1927, the famous novelist Edna Ferber stayed in the Ferguson home where she found much of the material for her novel, Cimarron.
The home offers tours.
Governor Seay, second Territorial Governor of Oklahoma from 1892 to 1893, built this three-story mansion for approximately $11,000.00 on 15 acres of land purchased for $637.50. The mansion was completed in March of 1892 to host dignitaries present for the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Land Run.
The home offers tours.
Dennis Watson, who portrays royal governor Lord Dunmore at Colonial Williamsburg, talks about the governor's actions prior to and during the American RevolutionᾹincluding his removal of the powder from the Williamsburg Powder Magazine and his issuing of a proclamation promising slaves freedom if they joined the British in the war.
Erik Goldstein, curator of mechanical arts and numismatics at Colonial Williamsburg, discusses the arms display in Williamsburg's Governor's Palace, including the history of arms displays and of this display in particular, a recreation of that in the Palace in 1775.
Ken Johnston, a historical interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, looks at the beliefs and actions of Benedict Arnold, arguing that Arnold never betrayed his own beliefs and values.