The U.S. Military Railroads’ Construction Corps under Herman Haupt performed spectacular engineering feats during this war.
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Daily Quiz for May 23, 2008
The Schurman Commission of 1899 was established to study this.
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Daily Quiz for May 22, 2008
This only son of a Javanese schoolteacher was instrumental in creating the nation of Indonesia and was its first president.
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Daily Quiz for May 21, 2008
Although he appeared to most people like a Gilded Age gentleman, this thief–known as Black Bart–confounded Wells Fargo detectives during an eight-year string of stagecoach robberies.
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Daily Quiz for May 20, 2008
In 1814, Andrew Jackson called them "hellish banditti."
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John Burns of Gettysburg
Bret Harte’s poem, John Burns of Gettysburg, celebrates an elderly civilian who took up arms in defense of his home.
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural speech addressed the need to prosecute the Civil War to a successful conclusion, but with “malice toward none.”