Nonetheless, tragedy would come soon for Eleanor, at the age of 5 her mother became severely ill and died. Two years later her father, "the person she loved more than anyone else" (Graves 12) also became ill and died. ... "One summer day" (Graves 22) while Eleanor was riding on a train to New York City, a "handsome young man" (Graves 22) approached her. ... Two years after James birth another son was conceived, but a few months after he died of health issues. ... The summer after the elections, the Roosevelt's went to Campobello Island, where FDR's mother "had given t...

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This admiration lead to his invitation to the Catholic Second Plenary Council in Baltimore, which among other things commemorated the Catholic soldiers who died on both sides in the Civil War. ... With the peaceful ending of the Trent affair, those tensions died down and Lincoln's assassination almost four years later would have been pointless. ... Before, in the summer of '64, Booth had ideas of going beyond the Confederate mission of spy and sabotage and wanted to kidnap Lincoln and keep him as hostage for the return of all southern POWs. ...

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During the Civil War, Charles Summer pushed for the emancipation of the slaves and introduced the 13th Amendment to the Senate in 1864. ... A reliable friend of blacks, who had defended runaway slaves in court without fee and before dying, requested a burial in a black cemetery. ...

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Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 6, 1811 to the proud parents of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pinckney Sumner. Sumner was very silent about his life growing up and genealogy. Mrs. Sumner's grandfather was an extensive landholder and a surveyor of Hanover. In Plymouth County, ...

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In the summer of 2003 President George W. Bush waged a military campaign in Iraq with false justifications and fabricated documents that were used as evidence to further his war agenda. Throughout literature there are uncanny resemblances to this moment in current events. Ranging from the dictatoria...

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