This is the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr and Coretta Scott King. Martin Luther King is a man who gave one speech in his life. In that speech he talked about dreams in such a vague way that he actually meant to give support...
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This is the grave of Andrew Carnegie, self-made man, steel capitalist, and terrible human who tried to buy love for his many, many sins, especially at Homestead, by building libraries.
This is the grave of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes of course is one of the most famous and important Supreme Court justices in American history. After barely surviving the Civil.
This is the grave of William Clark, copper capitalist and Gilded Age plutocrat. I have discussed Clark before. He was a miner turned capitalist in Montana who became one of Montana's three Copper Kings. He's remarkable not so much for that, but for being the...
This is the grave of Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was the most prominent minister in mid-19th century America. The son of Lyman Beecher, one of the most important ministers of.
This is the grave of William "Boss" Tweed I hardly need to provide a biography of the man whose name is synonymous throughout the United States with political corruption. Tweed,.
This is the grave of J.P. Morgan. The Gilded Age capitalist's Gilded Age capitalist, J.P. Morgan was born to a wealthy Hartford family in 1837. He became a banker in London in 1857. He came back to the US in 1858 and started working in...
This is the grave of Sidney Hillman. Hillman was born into a Jewish family in Lithuania in 1887. He was training to be a rabbi, but fell in with political.
Time for the next installment in the internet's least important historical series. This is the grave of Samuel Gompers. Gompers, an English immigrant from a Jewish background, immigrated to the.
This is the grave of Henry George. Henry George was the man behind the idea of the single tax. This was his solution to the inequality dominating the United States during the Gilded Age. George started his political life as a Lincoln supporting Republican in...
Underneath this rock is buried Jacob Riis. A Danish immigrant, Riis became one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era, exposing the terrible conditions of immigrants and the urban.
Now this is a grave you can set your watch to. That's right, this is the grave of Johnny Unitas, 9th round pick out of Louisville, Baltimore Colts legend, 10.