U.S. PresidentsEverything you didn't know about the so-called leaders of the free world, from their favorite foods to their pets' names. Photo 1: Alexander Gardner Wikimedia Commons Public domain Photo 2: Rembrandt Peale Wikimedia Commons ...
wanted, is in place. The intellectual elite who areawareof how far we have fallen from Jeffersonian principles, tend to condescendinglydismissJefferson as at once both Utopian and anachronistic. This is pathetic and terrifying folly. American government now owes more to Otto von Bismark than to Tho...
The reaction to “rum, Romanism, and rebellion” was not positive. Some in the crowd hissed. Reporters present at the meeting recognized it as a huge problem for Blaine because he was now identified with religious bigots. (Burchard claimed not to be anti-Catholic and said he just got caug...
Next, negroes suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State; then, white men supposed to be leagued with the negroes; and finally, strangers from neighboring States, going thither on business, were in many instances subjected to the same...
His retirement from office after two terms established a tradition that lasted until 1940 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term. (The 22nd Amendment in 1951 now limits the president to two elected terms.) One obvious criticism is his acceptance of slave ownership. Many peo...
Presidential hatred is involved in generational politics and is grounded in the cultural past rather than the political present. We argue that the controversial reputations of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton were grounded in debates over American politics of the late 1940s and the late 1960s. In ...
in the 1940s and worked a series of jobs in both film production and acting before assuming his first role in 1947's The Lady from Munich, a noir film directed by Orson Welles in which Kennedy played an Irish-American whose wife is eventually revealed to be a deep-cove...
to that needed when working from a ‘clean slate’, resting upon: an appreciation of the modalities of the building considered; historical precedents for re-use; and a sensitivity to the lived realities of local and regional policy making. Importantly, this work asks whether a hotel is ...
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog", was written by what Welsh poet in 1940? A compound of what metallic element, with the symbol Sr and refined from celestite, is used to create bright red fireworks? Cortland, Winesap, Jonagold and Empire are all types of what fruit? Which color...
forces. FromJune of 1940 through December of 1941, $36 billion was allocated to the War Department(more than was spent on all of World War I) and $8 billion for the Army alone. Meanwhile, the munitions program was preparing weaponry to sustain a military force of more than 1 million ...