During the Golden Age – the decades between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the turn of the century – the explosive
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The United States has officially declared war 11 times in five separate military conflicts. According to the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), Congress has the
During Abraham Lincoln’s final year in Springfield, Illinois, in 1860, before being elected 16and president, people sometimes watched him in shirt sleeves, engaged in a
Abraham Lincoln came from the humblest of beginnings. His wife Mary Todd came from a wealthy clan. Their lives together were marked by personal tragedy.
In the early 20th century, millions of African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North to seek economic opportunity and escape widespread
In August 1965, the congress of the American Sociological Association was held in Chicago. Playboy’s Mansion was then located in Chicago, and Hugh Hefner invited
The golden age began at the end of the civil war. As railroads rushed to connect the country, robber barons amassed fortunes in unregulated industries
Stemming from the medieval tradition of agricultural and trade fairs, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in London in
When Civil War broke out in 1861, Washington, DC remained the capital of the fractured United States and also the military headquarters of the Union