Let us pause briefly to tally the grim catalog of disasters that had befallen these two boys between 1765 and 1769: their father had vanished, their mother had died, their cousin and supposed protecto...
Like Ben Franklin, Hamilton was mostly self-taught and probably snatched every spare moment to read. The
Like other founding fathers, Hamilton inhabited two diametrically opposed worlds. There was the Olympian sphere of constitutional debate and dignified discourse—the way many prefer to remember these s...
Many people knew that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were the authors, but the trio proclaimed their authorship to only a chosen few and then mostly after the first bound volume was published in March 178...
Meanwhile, the secretive Senate met upstairs in a chamber without a spectator section. For the first five years, senators conducted their business behind closed doors.
Not expecting to see you again before the Spring campaign opens, I wish to express, in this way, my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particul...
Nothing in all history, William Lloyd Garrison wrote, equaled this wonderful, quiet, sudden transformation of four millions of human beings from . . . the auction-block to the ballot box.92 Grant term...
Thomas Nast published an election cartoon entitled Victory! that showed Grant mounted on a white horse, waving a flag bedecked with the words Union and Equal Rights, as he thrust his sword into the th...
To his astonishment, the officers agreed with Lee’s views and in a manner, scoffed Hamilton, that would have done honor to the most honorable society of midwives.27 Washington preferred to operate by...
To make good on payments, Hamilton knew he would have to raise a substantial loan abroad and boost domestic taxes beyond the import duties now at his disposal. He proposed taxes on wines and spirits d...
When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses might be preserved from all harm and restored to his family, Julia fairly burst out with a new fantasy: Dear me! I hope he wi...
Eight thousand Republicans crammed into Crosby’s Opera House for a veritable coronation of Ulysses S. Grant. To play on wartime memories, General John Black Jack Logan was designated to place his name...
Livelihood.58 Grant promised to send the Oglala Sioux large herds of sheep and cattle for raising stock and to build schools that would teach them English. For the Indians, however, this didn’t mean s...
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. It will be powerful cement of our union.12
As to why God had singled out John D. Rockefeller for such spectacular bounty, Rockefeller always adverted to his own adherence to the doctrine of stewardship—the notion of the wealthy man as a mere i...
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