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The Whiplash of War: Syracuse from Appomattox to Ford’s Theater
Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...
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This Drake neighborhood building just became a local landmark
Des Moines City Council members this week unanimously approved making Ulysses S. Grant School ... the 18th U.S. president and a leading Civil War Union general, the six-room school was built ...
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What a Simple Pen Reminds Us About Ulysses S. Grant’s Vision for a Post-Civil War America
President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...
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Lesson Plan: First 100 Days - Ulysses Grant (1869)
By when had the last of the southern states “rejoined the Union” after the Civil War? Clip #11: Vice President and First Lady (2:21). Who was Ulysses Grant’s first vice president and what ...
Cultural counterrevolution: Funds cut from humanities grants to go toward Trump's fascistic “National Garden of American Heroes”
Trump first broached the issue of a patriotic sculpture garden in July 2020, using the attacks on various monuments by ...
The Latest: S&P 500 falls 2% at the open despite Trump’s tariff pause
The S&P 500 was down 2.3% early Thursday, a day after surging 9.5% following President Donald Trump ’s decision to pause many ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
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The Penn Hall Hotel, once Pottsville’s finest, was demolished in 1966
The Penn Hall Hotel was not Pottsville’s first hotel, but for a time it was its most famous. When it opened at Centre Street ...
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The US restricts presidents to 2 terms. Here's a look at the tradition Trump questions
Historians debated whether Abraham Lincoln might have pursued a third term after the Civil War had he not been assassinated ...
Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of mistakenly deported man. See a recap of Thursday.
The man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his ...
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‘Angel of the battlefield’: Fort Wayne Civil War nurse honored at Lindenwood Cemetery
(WANE) — In honor of Women’s History Month, local historical society chapters paid tribute to Civil War nurse and Fort ... Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant honored her for her ...