1887. Two Volumes in One. The biography of Henry Clay, the silver-tongued Kentuckian, who was a respected orator and served as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century. He was a compelling presence in Congress and is best known as the author of the famous Missouri Compromise, restricting slavery to the states south of 30 degree ...
1928. Born in Germany, Schurz was compelled to flee after the collapse of the revolutionary movement. He emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Watertown, Wisconsin and became a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him U.S. minister to Spain. Schurz resigned this position to serve in the Civil War. Promoted to major ...
Old as history is, and manifold as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together, as because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the ...
Carl Schurz (1829-1906) was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer and Union Army general in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished author, newspaper editor and journalist, who in 1869 became the first German-born American elected to the United States Senate. During his later years, Schurz was the most prominent ...
Old as history is, and manifold as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together, as because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the ...
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Carl Schurz, Truman Howe Bartlett, Bruce Rogers, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress), Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
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