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When President Abraham Lincoln took off his top hat to give his first inaugural address, Stephen Douglas volunteered to hold the hat.
Roy Morris, Jr., The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 210.
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From 1860 to 1890, $340,000,000 worth of silver was mined from the Comstock Lode.
Fon W. Boardman, Jr., America and the Gilded Age: 1876 – 1900 (New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1972), 47. By 1866, over 900 schools for freed African Americans were established, and they were educating 90,000 students.
Douglas R. Egerton, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014), 11. |
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