Category : Politics

Politics

Senator Richard B. Russell Jr

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The Southern Sentinel Richard Brevard Russell Jr., the longtime U.S. Senator from Georgia, embodied the contradictions of the 20th-century American South. A masterful legislator who...
Politics

The New Deal Coalition

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Forging America’s Political Landscape In the depths of the Great Depression, as breadlines snaked through American cities and farms withered under dust storms, a new...
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Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region, a rural frontier area straddling the border between North and South Carolina. The...
HistoryPolitics

Andrew Johnson

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Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was a complex and polarizing figure whose presidency (1865–1869) was defined by the tumultuous aftermath of...