A History of the American People
be punished by hanging. Instead of enlisting, Whitman engaged himself in hospital service, first at the New York Hospital, then ...
without it ever impinging on her consciousness, insofar as that is reflected in her poetry. Of her more than 1,700 poems, not on ...
the federal government a 400-foot right of way, ten alternate sections of land for each mile of track, and first-mortgage loans ...
priority and the miners did what they pleased. They created the towns of Lewiston, Boise on the Salmon River, and in 1864 Helena ...
said: Then there is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.' The two generals ...
May l0. Almost his last words to his colleagues were that he was glad no member of his Cabinet had made money out of the war and ...
for the simple reason that only a tiny proportion of them ever had the smallest desire to return to a continent for which, insti ...
been sacrificed; we must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union. There is too much disposition, in certain qu ...
this disbarment could be removed by executive pardon-as soon as this was done, normal government of the states, by the states, c ...
assisted by most of the Republican majority. It was clear that the President had the backing only of the small minority of Democ ...
legislation was plainly unconstitutional, but Congress planned to make it efficacious before the Court could invalidate it. This ...
nominating conventions. The new party and the imposed state were one. It was as though the North, with its military power, had i ...
These transactions at least had the merit of enabling Congress to bully the South into ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment, which ...
things. Thus the great Civil War, the central event of American history, having removed the evil of slavery, gave birth to a new ...
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