Rough Rider and the Professor

Rough Rider and the ProfessorTheodore Roosevelt was a uniquely gifted figure. A man of great intellect and physicality, the New York patrician captured the imagination of the American people with his engaging personality and determination to give all citizens regardless of race, color, or creed the opportunity to achieve the American dream. While Roosevelt employed his abilities to rise from unknown New York legislator to become the youngest man ever to assume the presidency in

As his college professor had opined

There is speculation that the devotional may have been given to Lincoln by his wife Mary

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Their political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states

Written by Edgar Feuchtwanger and Bertil Scali

mostly unknown encounters that Abraham Lincoln had with his constituents

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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces--when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives

The Library of Congress’ Young Readers Center is a resource for children

Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women

Orlean delivers a tale that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before

and the Paul Thompson photographs (1910) shot specifically for the landmark T206 baseball cards