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Posts by Month: June, 2008

• Monday the 30th
• Edwin M. Stanton
  Edwin M. Stanton, born in Ohio in 1814, was educated as a lawyer, passed the bar in 1836, and practi...
• Sunday the 29th
• Charles Francis Adams: Diplomat
  Charles Francis Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 18, 1807. His grandfather was John...
• Saturday the 28th
• The Purple People Eaters
  One of the most dominant teams in the National Football League during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
• Friday the 27th
• William Seward
  William Seward was a man of significant personal accomplishment.  His private and public life r...
• Thursday the 26th
• Unjust Removal
  In 1830, men, women and children were removed from their native lands.  After being literally h...
• Wednesday the 25th
• Red Grange
  Widely considered the best player in the history of college football, Harold "Red" Grange was a thre...
• Tuesday the 24th
• Abolish the IRS?
  During his presidential campaign, Ron Paul put forth a novel argument - to abolish the IRS. The icon...
• Monday the 23rd
• Stan Mikita
  One of the legendary names in Chicago Blackhawks history, Stan Mikita was the NHL's premier center d...
• Sunday the 22nd
• Len Dawson
  When a young Len Dawson was trying to decide which college to attend, he eventually settled on Purdu...
• Saturday the 21st
• Thomas Paine
  "These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine wrote those hauntingly elegant words. ...
• Friday the 20th
• Loyalists and Quakers in Revolutionary America
  In most high school histories, the Loyalists - those who preferred British rule to revolution - are ...
• Thursday the 19th
• The Confederate Strategy
  The Confederacy was faced with nearly impossible odds. They had fewer people, a smaller military, a ...
• Wednesday the 18th
• Trail of Tears
  The Trail of Tears was one of the first genocides in the modern sense of the term - a clear precurso...
• Tuesday the 17th
• Social Security
  Social Security has been used for general federal funds since the Johnson administration, but that's...
• Monday the 16th
• The New York Draft Riots
  The New York Draft Riots of 1863 was the most incendiary revolt since the time of the Revolution. It...
• Sunday the 15th
• Appomattox Courthouse
  In the spring of 1865, the Confederacy lay in tatters.  Union forces occupied much of its terri...
• Saturday the 14th
• Chickamauga
  The Battle of Chickamauga was the culmination of a Union campaign in Tennessee and Georgia, and one ...
• Friday the 13th
• Fredericksburg
  By December of 1862, Lincoln had had enough of George B. McClellan.  The Major General's glacia...
• Thursday the 12th
• Antietam
  Early in the Civil War, the Confederacy realized that fighting a defensive conflict could only lead ...
• Wednesday the 11th
• The First Battle of Bull Run
  The secession of Virginia left the nation's capital in a precarious position in 1861.  Confeder...
• Tuesday the 10th
• Chancellorsville
  Time and time again in the Eastern theater of the Civil War, the Union forces vastly outnumbered the...
• Monday the 9th
• Salmon P. Chase
  Salmon Portland Chase (1808 – 1873) was born in Cornish, New Hampshire; later he became a Senator fr...
• Sunday the 8th
• Andrew Johnson
  Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina to a poor family. After the death of his ...
• Saturday the 7th
• Thomas Paine
  Thomas Paine, probably best known for his 1776 pamphlet, “Common Sense,” and one of the recognized f...
• Friday the 6th
• Johnny Unitas
  Arguably, Johnny Unitas is the greatest quarterback of all time.  Born May 7, 1933 in Pittsburg...
• Thursday the 5th
• Who Was Edwin M. Stanton?
  Edwin McMasters Stanton was born in 1814 to David Stanton, a Quaker physician and Lucy (Norman) Stan...
• Wednesday the 4th
• Andrew Johnson
  Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875) was Vice-President of the United States under Abraham Lincoln.  Wi...
• Tuesday the 3rd
• George Washington – The Patriot and His Life Before Presidency
  George Washington was born into a landed gentry family in 1732 and was one of six children from his ...
• Monday the 2nd
• The Confederacy Black Slave Owners
  In the early 1700s through the 1800s approximately 400,000 were white slave owners out of 27 million...
• Sunday the 1st
• Daniel Webster
  Daniel Webster was a great statesman, lawyer, Congressman, Senator and orator.  He was born in ...