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...riverboat gambler and property shark, had shot a man in Nebraska and had moved East and changed his name to escape the judge and jury. Young Henri (pronounced Hen-rye) became an artist through study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which in the 1880s was still what its chief teacher, the great realist Thomas Eakins, had made it: the best place in America to learn direct, factual realist painting, based on incessant drawing of the naked body...
...expansive visions of business may be coming to an end. According to the Sept. 8 issue of the American Political Report, published by trend spotter Kevin Phillips, there have been four probusiness cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended in periods...
...enacting term limits shift the balance of power within the federal government towards the President, as many opponents of term limits contend. The turnover in Congress was far higher during the latter part of the 19th century than in the decades since World War II. Yet the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by weak presidents and a dominant Congress, while recent decades have seen the exact opposite. Clearly, no relationship exists between the power of Congress and term limits...
...heyday--from the 1880s to the early 1910s--Memorial Hall was home to boxing matches, gambling and social drinking. Students of those lays affectionately referred...
...heartbreaks -- but also a slice of Americana that spans 150 years. The series covers the impact of the Depression and two World Wars; player-owner conflicts that go back more than a century (the reserve clause that prevented players from switching teams was hated even in the 1880s); and the long struggle to achieve racial integration. Baseball celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives...