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Garry Boulard
"Tolling, slowly tolling, the alarm bells of all America sent to every heart this morning the news, long expected and long dreaded, that Ulysses S. Grant was dead," announced the…
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A biography of Louis Prima, one of the most underrated jazz musicians and entertainers of the twentieth century. It explores Prima’s ability to maintain a lifelong career, his knack for…
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A detailed account of how and why the conservative populist governor of Louisiana ordered the city occupied by 3,000 militiamen. Particularly investigates whether the move was a sound political strategy…
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASCENDANT-THE STORY OF THE ELECTION OF 1860
Rightly regarded by scholars as perhaps the most important political contest in American history, the election of 1860 is remembered today…
In the spring of 1865, after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, two men bestrode the national government as giants: Andrew Johnson and Ulysses…
The name Daniel Sickles and the word controversy are synonymous. Any student of 19th century American political history is familiar with Sickles' 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key, the son…
Considered a failure upon leaving the White House in 1857 and thought to be on his way to a well-deserved obscurity, Franklin Pierce during the Civil War emerged as a…
Just 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: "This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter…
Few presidents have been as eviscerated in history as Andrew Johnson, who suddenly on a rainy morning in April of 1865 became the nation's new chief executive upon the assassination…
In 1866, President Andrew Johnson was trying to find solutions to a bewildering array of immediate post-Civil War challenges: what to do about the recently liberated slaves, how to bring…
