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2 days ago · William Henry Seward ( / ˈsuːərd /; [1] May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
2 days ago · William H. McNeill was a Canadian American historian who promoted an expansive view of the history of human civilization that enlarged the traditional approach to the subject, most notably in his seminal work The Rise of the West (1963).
Jun 18, 2024 · William Henry Harrison (born February 9, 1773, Charles City county, Virginia [U.S.]—died April 4, 1841, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was the ninth president of the United States (1841), whose Indian campaigns, while he was a territorial governor and army officer, thrust him into the national limelight and led to his election in 1840. He was the ...
Jun 23, 2024 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born February 27, 1807, Portland, Massachusetts [now in Maine], U.S.—died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was the most popular American poet in the 19th century, known for such works as The Song of Hiawatha (1855) and “Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863).
3 days ago · Blackface - Wikipedia. This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.
19 hours ago · The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. [14] Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s as part of the Second Party System. [15] Four presidents ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler ...
Jun 16, 2024 · He was a namesake for Whig presidential candidate William Henry “Tippecanoe” Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, whose very short tenure as ninth president of the United States ended with his death on April 4, 1841. William H.H. Pinkham married in Farmington, NH, October 22, 1861, Sarah A. Pinkham, both of Farmington, NH.
