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Detroit Michigan Gale Michigan Gale Research
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Abraham Lincoln Civil War
681 wordsFun Fact: During the Civil War, telegraph wires were strung to follow the action on the battlefield. But there was no telegraph office in the White House, so Lincoln went across the street to the War Department to get the news. Fast Fact: Abhorring war, Abraham Lincoln accepted it as the only means to save the Union. Biography: Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The go...
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2,470 words... ely on simply a paragraph not even written by one of the Court's justices. The "Republican assault" began as early as March 7, the day after Taney read the majority opinion, when the New York Tribune pronounced that "The decision, we need hardly say, is entitled to just as much moral weight as would be the judgment of a majority of those congregated in any Washington bar-room. " The Chicago Tribune added on March 12: We must confess we are shocked at the violence and servility of the Judicia...
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Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
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1,271 wordsLies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen James W. Loewen, in my opinion, makes a very valid argument in Lies My Teacher Told Me. He argues that teaching (of history) today relies too much on the textbooks which glorify the United States and its imperfect leaders and heroes. His examples, in fact, are very surprising to those most unfamiliar, or deceived, in their understanding of American History and are painfully obvious to those fairly educated in the events of our nations past. Personally, I a...
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4,242 wordsThe US Government U. S. Government (History) The United States Government A collection of short reports all dealing with the United States Government. William Jefferson Clinton William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William J. Blythe III was killed in an automobile collision just two months before William? s birth. At age four, William Jefferson Blythe IV was legally adopted by his mothers second husband, Roger Clinton, making him William Jefferson ...
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3,579 wordsComics: In the Beginning The modern comic, as we know it, began in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World on February 17, 1895. The comic, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, was based on the life of Mickey Dugan, an Irish immigrant child in the city. Although the strip had no name, people have dubbed it the Yellow Kid because the nightshirt worn by Mickey Dugan was the projection for an experiment in yellow ink by the newspaper. Eventually the comic came to be known as Hogans Alley. Soon comics were recogn...
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Mary Todd Todd Lincoln
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Writ Of Habeas Corpus Win The War
985 wordsPresident Abraham Lincoln once said You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can t fool all of the people all of the time (Degregorio 243). This quote refers to the fact that Lincoln was a politician who could easily relate to his public. A political figure who can relate to his public with ease is one that shows exceptional leadership. The North defeated the South in the Civil War chiefly due to superior political leadership. Lincoln, as l...
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