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Upon this man's re-election, Karl Marx called him "the single-minded son of the working class" |
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2025-09-16 |
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On display at the National Museum of American History, his hat includes a mourning band for his son Willie |
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A PIECE OF HISTORY |
2024-11-13 |
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The New York Times' sub-headline about him on April 15, 1865--"no hopes entertained of his recovery" |
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19th CENTURY NEWSPAPERS |
2024-06-13 |
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Phew! As a boy on the Indiana frontier, this president was kicked unconscious by a horse but survived |
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I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY |
2017-11-29 |
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On April 25, 1865, 6-year-old Teddywatched from a windowas this man's funeral processionmoved through Manhattan |
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THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY |
2014-09-15 |
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After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies" |
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19th CENTURY PEOPLE |
2011-01-24 |
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This man died April 15, 1865 despite the desperate medical assistance of U.S. Surgeon General Joseph Barnes |
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MEN IN HISTORY |
2008-06-19 |
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Las Vegas was still part of the Arizona Territory when this president made Nevada the 36th state in 1864 |
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LAS VEGAS HISTORY |
2001-06-06 |
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The Petersen House was known only as home to a tailor who rented out rooms until this president died there |
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HISTORIC HOMES |
1996-05-10 |
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On Feb. 12, 1892 his birthday became an official holiday in Illinois |
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THE 1890s |
1994-06-28 |
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He said of his wife's family, "One 'D' is good enough for God, but not for the Todds" |
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HISTORY |
1993-05-07 |
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On June 11, 1896, the government bought the D.C. house in which he died 31 years earlier |
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THE 1890s |
1988-05-24 |
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