He is responsible for the use of the phrase “manifest destiny” as a reference to an inexorable expansion of the United States westward.
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Daily Quiz for November 24, 2008
This American president issued an executive order extending the “10-hour system” to all laborers and mechanics employed on federal public works.
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Daily Quiz for November 23, 2008
This American broadcaster was best known for the line, “This is London.”
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Daily Quiz for November 21, 2008
In the pivotal First Battle of Trenton, the American army under George Washington lost this many men killed.
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Letter from American History – Temperance Revisited
A letter from the editor of American History magazine says America is in the midst of a new era of temperance following a national alcoholic binge triggered by the end of Prohibition 75 years ago.
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Uneasy About Alcohol – America and the Booze Question
The Pilgrims drank. So did the Founding Fathers. Prohibition couldn’t curb Americans’ thirst for booze, and years of teetotaling tirades fell on deaf ears. So why did alcohol become the focus of one of this nation’s greatest moral crusades?
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Daily Quiz for November 20, 2008
This U.S. Supreme Court Justice was born in Vienna, Austria.
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The General’s Mount: a Poem on General Forrest’s Horse
Read the poem tribute to General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s horse Roderick.