According to the 1860 census, only 4 percent of the white population of the South owned plantations large enough to be farmed by 20 or more slaves.
About 1 percent owned plantations needing 50 or more slaves.
Seventy-five percent of white families owned no slaves.
Harry Truman didn’t attend college. He was the only president in the 20th century without a college education.
In the Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed on August 27, 1928, the US., France, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland all agreed to give up war as an instrument of foreign policy. However, the treaty lacked enforcement power, and within 14 years all the parties that signed it were fighting in World War II. The…
The Seminole War of 1835-42, sparked by the Seminole tribe’s refusal to be exiled to Oklahoma, was fought in the Florida Everglades. The tribe’s greatest hero, Osceola, held off U.S. troops with guerrilla-style actions until his capture in 1837. He died in prison, but the fighting dragged on for several more years.
The insider stock trader Michael Milken who became the symbol of 1980s greed graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, symbol of 1960s activism, in 1968.
No, Abraham Lincoln didn’t write the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope. Judging from the many drafts of the speech that have been discovered, the speech was fashioned through the traditional method of writing and revising. It was presented on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, four…
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were seventh cousins, once removed.