This is the grave of Richard Nixon. There is no real reason to talk about what a terrible person Richard Nixon was. You already know this. I will say the phrase of his grave may be true but has absolutely nothing to do with the...
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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.
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 War (wounded a number of times and also barely defeated a case of dysentery), Holmes...
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.
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, the child of Quakers like another paragon of virtue in American history named Richard Nixon,...
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.
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 United States in 1863. He became involved in...
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.
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.