Category: Biography

  • Joe Biden

    Joe Biden in the United States Joe Biden was vicepresident of the United States under the Obama Administration. From the White House: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before becoming the 47th and current Vice President of the United States. […]

  • Henry Charles Carey

    Henry Charles Carey in the United States Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879), American economist, was born in Philadelphia on the 15th of December 1793. At the age of twenty-eight he succeeded his father, Mathew Carey (1760-1839)—an influential economist, political reformer, editor, and […]

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson in the United States Ralph Waldo Emerson in the U.S. Legal History Summary A poet and essayist, Emerson espoused a philosophy called transcendentalism, which emphasized self-reliance and intuition.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson in the United States Ralph Waldo Emerson in the U.S. Legal History Summary A poet and essayist, Emerson espoused a philosophy called transcendentalism, which emphasized self-reliance and intuition.

  • Mexico

    Mexico in the United States Operation Wetback in relation to Crime and Race Operation Wetback is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Operation Wetback began in 1954 as an effort to remove undocumented and illegal Mexican sharecropper workers from the United […]

  • Mexico

    Mexico in the United States Operation Wetback in relation to Crime and Race Operation Wetback is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Operation Wetback began in 1954 as an effort to remove undocumented and illegal Mexican sharecropper workers from the United […]

  • Lord Salisbury

    Lord Salisbury in the United States Lord Salisbury in the U.S. Legal History Summary Imperious British prime minister who rejected American intervention in an 1895 border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana, prompting an American threat of military involvement. Salisbury ultimately […]

  • Lord Salisbury

    Lord Salisbury in the United States Lord Salisbury in the U.S. Legal History Summary Imperious British prime minister who rejected American intervention in an 1895 border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana, prompting an American threat of military involvement. Salisbury ultimately […]

  • Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau in the United States Henry David Thoreau in the U.S. Legal History Summary A pencilmaker, poet, and author of the influential essay Civil Disobedience, Thoreau sought to realize transcendentalist ideals in his personal life.

  • George Wallace

    George Wallace in the United States George Wallace in the U.S. Legal History Summary Alabama governor who ran for president in 1968 as a third-party candidate on the American Independent ticket. His message rejecting forced racial integration, the activities of radical college students, and […]

  • George Wallace

    George Wallace in the United States George Wallace in the U.S. Legal History Summary Alabama governor who ran for president in 1968 as a third-party candidate on the American Independent ticket. His message rejecting forced racial integration, the activities of radical college students, and […]

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X in the United States Malcolm X (1925-1965) was a black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm’s father, a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, […]

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X in the United States Malcolm X (1925-1965) was a black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm’s father, a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist leader of the 1920s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, […]

  • Aaron Burr

    Aaron Burr in the United States Burr, Aaron (1756_1836) According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 495 BURR, AARON (1756_1836) Aaron Burr of New York served as a Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War and later practiced law in Albany […]

  • Aaron Burr

    Aaron Burr in the United States Burr, Aaron (1756_1836) According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 495 BURR, AARON (1756_1836) Aaron Burr of New York served as a Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War and later practiced law in Albany […]