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21 Feb 2018, 2:45 am by NCC Staff
Abraham Lincoln was at the 1848 cornerstone ceremony. [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
She was the first woman to receive the honor, and her coffin sat on the catafalque built for the coffin of Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
21 Jan 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement to victory in the 1960s, but Bingham did his best to prevent that outcome. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 2:53 am by Scott Bomboy
Former Whigs who founded the Republican Party included Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, William Seward, and Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
25 Nov 2017, 2:00 am by NCC Staff
Spain continued to ask for compensation until 1860, when Abraham Lincoln became president. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 12:52 pm by Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman
(Matt McClain/ The Washington Post) The foreign emoluments clause provides that “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, a pivotal battle was fought by the British Army and Navy against the French Army on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City, on land that was originally owned by a farmer named Abraham Martin, hence the name of the battle. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 7:00 am by Schachtman
” Allen Thorndike Rice, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time at 242 (1909). [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 12:00 am by Smita Ghosh
” Relatedly, in the NYRB, James Oakes reviews two of Sidney Blumenthal’s books about Lincoln: A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849 and Wrestling with His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1849–1856. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:09 am by Embajador Microjuris al Día
Me temo que al finalizar su trabajo llegarán a la conclusión, en palabras del rabino Abraham Joshua Heschel, de que en este asunto de la deuda pública algunos son culpables pero todos somos responsables. [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 4:34 pm by Chuck Cosson
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 2:45 am by NCC Staff
Abraham Lincoln was at the 1848 cornerstone ceremony. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 3:10 am by Scott Bomboy
Two Presidents associated with executive powers in times of national crisis, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, combined to issue a total of five executive orders in their first months in the White House. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 8:39 am by Lovechilde
"  Let us be as maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln, who had the vision to see that this nation could not exist half slave and half free. [read post]