This is the grave of John Wilkes Booth. There's really no need for a biography of Booth. All I can really say is that it was extremely weird to visit this spot. I have seen the graves of some very terrible people in this series....
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This is the grave of Daniel Burnham. Born in 1846 in Henderson, New York to a Swedenborgian family, as a young man he failed to get into either Harvard or.
Underneath this fallen tree is the grave of Jonas Salk. Born in 1914 in New York City to Jewish parents, Salk at first lived a pretty normal life for that.
This is the grave of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. The parents of FDR, James and Sara Roosevelt were landed elite in Hyde Park, New York, part of the Dutch class of old money that still played a major role in the region. James...
This is the grave of Samuel Flagg Bemis. Born in 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bemis graduated from Clark University in 1912 and then got a Ph.D. in History from Harvard.
This is the grave of Henry James. Born in 1843 to old New York money, Henry grew up in luxury. He and his family, which of course included his brother,.
This is the grave of Ted Kennedy. It's hardly necessary here to provide the details of Ted Kennedy's life. After all, he was a seminal figure of American politics for nearly a half-century. But just a few points. 1) Perhaps the greatest tragedy of Kennedy's...
This is the graveyard at Jamestown Colony. Jamestown was a complete disaster in its early years. See, all the European colonial incursions faced a problem: there wasn't very many of.
This is the grave of Jonathan Edwards. Born in 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut to a minister and the daughter of another minister, Edwards grew up in a family deeply.
This is the grave of the vile traitor Albert Sidney Johnston. Born in 1803 in Washington, Kentucky, he was educated first at Transylvania University in Lexington and then at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. He was at both places the same time as...
This is the grave of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Where to even start with one of the most complicated people in American history? I guess I will just make a few.
This is the grave of Harry Orchard. Born Albert Horsley in 1866 in Ontario, the future Orchard was a rounder and a thug. He married and started a cheesemaking business,.