President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
From Douglas Brinkley
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.
While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.
Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.
Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.
Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.
The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
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