The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum, the president agreed to the artist's scheme to mint commemorative coins. With the coins, Borglum hoped to raise funds to carve a mountain into ...
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This year, the “threes” have it. 1923. The year Yankee Stadium opened. The year of the legendary Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo fight took place. (There will be more of the latter in a coming issue.) In 1923 ...
In Indiana and Arkansas, Care and Concern for the Unborn L.A. Mayor Karen Bass: We Forced 1,000 U.S. Troops to ‘Retreat’ In the Washington Post, former Indiana governor and Purdue University president ...
Admirers of our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, will be gathering at Plymouth Notch, Vermont tonight to mark the centenary of his swearing the presidential oath. It was a century ago that word ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE—Claude M. Fuess —Little, Brown ($4.75). “In trying to anticipate the verdict of history, we can be sure that Calvin Coolidge will not be remembered as a great constructive President, ...
Many educators and pundits today seem eager to cast aside America's founding document or diminish its importance. This desire is rooted in the claim that the men behind the creation of our nation had ...
Bennington Battle Day is coming up on Friday, and that means free admission at six state-owned historic sites to honor the Revolutionary War defeat of the British that played out 247 years ago. Most ...
He’s come down to us as a caricature: “Silent Cal,” a sour, skinflint, do-nothing president from an age of indolence. The reality is light-years removed from this cardboard character. On Aug. 2, it ...