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23 hours ago · Recorded October 1931. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover ...
23 hours ago · Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [b] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war.
- Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.
- Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
23 hours ago · The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin [2] won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national ...
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May 12, 2024 · This was banned by British colonialists in the nineteenth century—a move met with opposition by some Hindu men, who countered that these women had chosen death. Here, the voice of the subaltern—a term used to describe those lacking agency—is ignored, meaning both the British colonialists and Hindu men perpetuated the silencing of these women.
23 hours ago · Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 ...
- Warren, joined by unanimous
- Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.
23 hours ago · George Moscone. James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what he termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown ...
23 hours ago · Notable/Quotable: The insufferable totalitarian impulse. From the WSJ, a letter to the editor in reply to a letter to the editor: A letter writer (May 4) wants to know why environmental mandates are necessary if the policies “make perfect sense.”. Because Americans care so little about the environment, they have to be forced to do the right ...
