But his speech ended with a prediction that slavery would not last, that its banishment in England and elsewhere would inevitably spread. In the following decade, the fragile consensus between American slave states and free states collapsed, making the country’s breakup inevitable and..…

Jefferson went so far as to assert that United States had the right to prohibit other countries from cruising Gulf Stream waters in both the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean on the spurious grounds that this warm-water current was just extension of Mississippi River.. ..…

Historically, about quarter of the presidents including some of the nation's most famous leaders, such as George Washington, James Madison and Franklin Roosevelt were members of Episcopal Church, American to the Church of England. ..…

President Bush, hoping to elude the fate that befell his father dozen years ago, was on the verge of preventing re-election defeat at the hands of Sen. ..…

THE SAVAGE of Matthew Shepard last October culminated startling and disturbing recent in hate crimes African-American man dragged to his death Texas wave of church bombings across South desecrations New England and brutal murders of Buffalo, N.Y., Richmond, Va., and Alabama. ..…

By the early 1830s new mobilization for immediate emancipation of American slaves emerged with the establishment of William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator in 1831, with his all-out attack on in 1832, and with the founding of New England Anti-Slavery Society and American Anti-Slavery..…

few people came to the funeral of one of the great leaders of American Revolution. -- Danny Katch. Timeline 1737 Born Thetford, England 1775 Arrives Philadelphia 1776 Writes Common Sense. ..…

One of the largest of these volumes, is Amanda Foreman's spacious narrative of Anglo-American and Anglo- Confederate relations during the war. Born England, raised Los Angeles, and residing London and New York, about. ..…

The Marquis de Condorcet, rs on in its early years, anticipated with distaste the prospect that liberty will be no more, in the eyes of nation, than the necessary condition for the security of financial operations.. ..…

That opening question appears in – not so much in New York City and not so much in San Francisco, but – and not so much in New England – but that sort of question is operative as well in American culture. . ..…

Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, Church of England; Member, House of Lords . ... In the United States, Roman Catholic mass was said in more languages than ever in American history. ..…

Bob Ruppert, Journal of American Revolution.  1066William the Conquerer Begins Norman ConquestRead More About This DayHow Normans Conquered England. ..…