I am fine here in New Delhi and hope you would be enjoying the beautiful snowfall in London. I have joined the Company about a month ago. You will be surprised to know that here the officers of the Company are
For the first few years the office was open, it was the most substantial building in Denver. Plans for the coin-producing Denver Mint as the country knows it today didn’t emerge until 1896 when Congress approved a separate site in Denver to produce gold and silver coins. After years of ...
and to ascribe the deterioration of a society to someinherent limit in its loan and tenure of life, or some irreparable running downof internal force. Such analogies may offer provisional illumination, as whenwe compare...
He didn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor but had a great talent for nasty snark (oh, but would he have loved Twitter). When Russell ignored his demands to confess being part of a junto, Pennypacker wrote, “…clear your throat, and speak out like a little man. If you can...
Readers: For a time, I will be blogging about people to be featured in my soon-to-be-published book, When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation. Today Clara Barton, Civil War Nurse, is featured. I promise not to include book spoilers...
Northern abolitionists rebelled against the law. After 50,000 anti-slavery protesters filled the streets of Boston to protest the arrest of a Black man named Anthony Burns in 1854, PresidentFranklin Piercesent federal troops to maintain order and provided a Navy ship to return Burns back to Vi...
and had seen this occur in shell-shocked soldiers, whose apparent insanity he never forgot. He seemed to regard their psychotic break with reality as a rebellion against it, and, indeed, there was good reason to rebel against the traumatic reality of war, and a society that accepted it as...
Yet the racial tensions between white and black people that were present in society showed up on baseball fields. Cap Anson refused to play in a game with a negro pitcher, George Stovey at a game in 1887. This was a famous, but hardly isolated incident. In that same year, the Internat...
Peer Ali Khan was a rebel who encouraged people to take up arms during the mutiny of 1857. He was among the 14 who were handed capital punishment for guiding the role in rebellion. He worked to join the freedom movement and inspired others in the movement too. But in public’s memory,...
"For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, ...