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1 month agoThe Chicken Dish Abraham Lincoln Enjoyed Happens To Be Perfect For Your Slow Cooker - Tasting Table
Abraham Lincoln's favorite dish was chicken fricassee, a French-style slow-cooked chicken with vegetables and cream sauce that he ate with such enthusiasm he often had three helpings.
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fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks agoThe Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Decision Hinges on a Case You've Never Heard Of
The 1844 Lynch v. Clarke case, involving an Irish child born in New York, may determine whether millions of American-born children of undocumented immigrants retain birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
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1 month agoFrom slavery to the White House, the Ficklin family served presidents for nearly 8 decades
Woodson Ficklin worked a remarkable 44 years on the White House residence staff. His son, Wrory Ficklin, had a lengthy White House career, too - 40 years on the staff of the National Security Council. Presidents come and go from the White House every four years or eight years, but the Ficklin family - Woodson Ficklin, his wife, some of his brothers and sisters, and son Wrory Ficklin - was a constant presence there for nearly eight decades, serving 13 presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama.
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1 month agoTrump Reveals Which Historical Figure He'd Want to Reincarnate' As And It's Exactly Who You'd Guess
Trump stated he would choose to reincarnate as himself, citing his exciting current life, before pivoting to discuss his immigration policies and border wall achievements.
History
fromThe Atlantic
1 month agoThe Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President
William Grimes's 1825 autobiography was the first fugitive-slave narrative in American history, exposing slavery's brutality while asserting enslaved people's humanity and intellect against America's founding contradictions.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoPresidential Words for Presidents Day
From George Washington's first presidential "administration" to Donald Trump's promises to cut taxes "bigly," U.S. presidents have played a big role in shaping the direction of the country, including the words we use to talk about everything from national politics to everyday objects and actions.
US politics
fromBig Think
1 month agoHow the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses
The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
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1 month agoConfused Trump Says the Civil War and Reconstruction Were the Same Thing: A Fancy Way of Saying the Civil War'
Truth be told, Reconstruction is not a fancy way of saying the Civil War. The term refers to the period after the Civil War, in which the former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union and had to adhere to the Constitution and federal statutes, particularly the newly-ratified 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, which abolished slavery, granted citizenship and the attendant rights to all persons born in the U.S. (including former slaves), and prohibited denial of voting rights based on race, respectively.
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fromEmptywheel
2 months agoThe Unstated Constitutional Problems With Obama "Using the 14th"
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
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fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months agoSamuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book
Samuel Green, a free Black Marylander aiding runaways, was arrested for possessing Uncle Tom's Cabin under a law banning 'abolition pamphlets,' becoming an abolition hero.
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2 months agoFormer Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, leader of Sept. 11 panel, dies
Hamilton, who also led a congressional probe of the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra affair while representing a rural southern Indiana district, died peacefully in his home in Bloomington, Indiana, said his son Doug Hamilton, who did not cite a specific cause. Hamilton was at the forefront of congressional opposition to the 1991 Persian Gulf War waged by President George H.W. Bush and advocated continued economic sanctions against Iraq before military action over its invasion of Kuwait.
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fromThe Takeout
1 month agoAbraham Lincoln's Casket Flag Finds A New Home At A Historic NYC Steakhouse - The Takeout
Keens Steakhouse permanently displays Abraham Lincoln's casket flag, purchased at auction, alongside extensive Americana and controversial relics including a bloodstained Ford's Theatre playbill.
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fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months agoSamuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book
Samuel Green secretly aided Underground Railroad conductors; possession of Uncle Tom's Cabin resulted in his arrest and elevated his status as an abolitionist symbol.
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