But at least one senator seemed to make light of it ... When Sumner presented a draft of his speech to a few friends, Sen. William H. Seward of New York begged him to temper the message out ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...

William Henry Seward Perhaps like many viewers, you exited Steven Spielberg's hit movie Lincoln wanting to know more — more about the Civil War, more about the 16th president, more about ...

William H. Seward called Alaska the “last star added to the American flag.” Today, it must become the first place America looks to solve the biggest challenges of our time: economic ...

William H. Luers, an arts-minded US diplomat who worked to shield the Czech writer and dissident Vaclav Havel from communist reprisals during the Cold War, and who later helped grow the ...

SEWARD — For the second time in a little ... which advanced to the Senate on a 215-214 margin. Two Republicans voted against it. In response to repeated questions over that vote Tuesday night ...

I remember the heat. A dry, suffocating torrent. The blazing, burning sun baking the tarmac. No clouds, no trees, just a furnace of hate. I feel the hate. I remember the heat. I remember the dust.

Born in Alabama, William Henry Gaston moved with his family to Plentitude, Texas before he turned 10. The son of a slave-owner and Texas legislator who farmed extensive landholdings in East Texas ...

14. 1799 found Elijah Miller in a law office at Cayuga. He was William H. Seward's father-in-law. Elijah Miller’s admission to the bar was at the first session of Cayuga County Court in May 1799.

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With a slim margin, the state Senate on early Saturday morning gave ... working to make our state more prosperous for everybody.” H.B. 5002, which narrowly passed the House earlier this week ...