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...Longfellow museum is the 18th century mansion located just beyond Harvard Square at 105 Brattle Street, which was once the home of noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—who was also an English professor at Harvard in the mid-1800s. The house also served as George Washington’s first headquarters for the Continental Army...
...ordered troops to serve as federal marshals at the polls in former Confederate states during the hotly contested 1876 presidential elections; Southerners then complained bitterly that Grant was "protecting" his party's candidates. "There comes a time when we've got to re-examine the old laws of the 1800s in light of this extraordinary series of challenges that we're faced with today," says Senator John Warner of Virginia, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee...
...York music history was preserved, rather than lost. From Tin Pan Alley in the 1800s and early 1900s to Bad Boy Records today, New York has generated quite a bit of musical history and tradition. Of course there are the obvious songs and performances: Frank Sinatra belting out "New York, New York," Billy Joel?s warmhearted "New York State of Mind," and Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five?s lyrical tourguide "New York, New York"(the lyrics to that last one: "Ah New York New York big city of dreams/ And everything in New York ain't always what...
...participate in the service. That said, the Islamic population in the U.S. is almost as varied as Mecca's. The first Muslims here were African slaves, who were forcibly Christianized, although some Muslim descendants still live on the Georgia coast. Syrians and Lebanese began arriving in the late 1800s. But the three largest groups in America are made up of more recent additions...
...public education is a system from the 1800s, created to discipline children so they could work in factories,” Condit said. “The Industrial Revolution is over—we don’t need this system anymore...