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"James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of rape, the World War I veteran was dragged from jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge before 1000 onlookers"--
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William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was one of those rare historians who effectively melded history and literature... Læs mere
From Martha Washington to Laura Bush, this book discusses the lives and circumstances of the 47 women who have been married to an American president. It emphasizes the... Læs mere
In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, Congressman Melvin Laird agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. Lampooned as a ""missile... Læs mere
Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after he joined the Union army he quickly... Læs mere
The first president to acquire a car in office (Congress granted him three automobiles), William Howard Taft is responsible for there being... Læs mere
As some Southern states prepared to withdraw from the Union, Secretary of State William Henry Seward sought to reunite the country. This biography explores Seward's political power and the theory that, as president, he might have prevented the Civil War.
One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the... Læs mere
Details the three years which saw Ulysses S Grant's extraordinary rise from mediocre shop clerk to general-in-chief of the US Army.... Læs mere