This is the grave of Adlai Stevenson, Sr. Born in 1835 in Christian County, Kentucky, Stevenson grew up in a slaving family that grew tobacco. But Stevenson's father was really.
When I make my points that the Trump administration is trying to recreate the Gilded Age rather than Nazi Germany, one of the areas where this most makes sense is.
This is the grave of Alexander Shepherd. Born in 1835 in Washington, D.C., Shepherd grew up working class, dropped of school at the age of 13, and got a job.
This is the grave of Nelson Aldrich. Born in 1841 in Foster, Rhode Island, Aldrich came from a family with long connections to the New England colonial elite, but which.
You can't really tell here, but from this angle you can kind of see (or I could when I took the picture, it's the white distant thing between the trees).
This is the grave of Stanley Matthews. Born in 1824 in Cincinnati, Matthews' family was evidently pretty well off in Porkopolis. He was able to attend Kenyon College, graduating in.
For seemingly forever, the end of Reconstruction has been taught as the "Compromise of 1877, where Democrats agreed to give the presidency to Rutherford Hayes in return for the end.
The great historian Richard White has an really interesting essay on the impeachment of Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876. The House managers, in their final brief of Feb..
