How a president's death helped kill Washington's "spoils system"
In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president. But after a ...
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Black Civil War soldiers massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky, remembered 160 years later
Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...
How two brothers tried to photograph the last survivors of the Revolutionary War
In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...
Millionaire at war with city of San Francisco in bitter battle over his playground private island
John Sweeney, the former billionaire owner of Point Buckler Island in California, was dramatically arrested outside a courthouse on Wednesday just moments after he land sold.