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Kenneth D Ackerman
Ackerman presents the razor-thin election story of President James A. Garfield, a partisan war, an assassination–and a cautionary tale for contemporary America.
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Every president is shaped by his nominating convention. Lincoln’s in 1860 not only was one of the most important, but also the most exciting in America up to that point…
William Magear Tweed, America’s most corrupt politician ever, ruled New York City in the 1860s and 1870s. He rigged the votes, bribed the legislature, and stole on a massive scale…
Kenneth D. Ackerman
Who would have thought that Leon Trotsky spent the two months leading up to the 1917 Russian Revolution not in Russia, but in New York City?
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On June 2, 1919, bombs exploded simultaneously in nine American cities. One destroyed the home of the Attorney General of the United States, A. Mitchell Palmer. In the aftermath of…
In September 1869, two young speculators, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, Jr., undertook perhaps the most audacious financial operation in American history - the cornering of the national gold supply…
