Sublime

For eight years under Woodrow Wilson he had been the number two man in the Navy Department.

He had written on the statute books of New York such a sweep of social welfare statutes that Oscar Handlin could say that they “made the most difficult state the best-governed one in the Union…[and] awakened the conscience of the nation to the needs of the urban working people.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, as President, was to say that “practically all

Primary instruction is within the reach of everybody; superior instruction is scarcely to be obtained by any.

With the fuel from the Montgomery bus boycott added to the national fire started by the Till case, the furor in the North was not going away. WHICH MEANT THAT IN JANUARY, 1956, Lyndon Johnson, returning to Washington after his heart attack, was going to have to make a decision, a decision that was to bring to the surface, within a character filled

The 1910 publication of Medical Education in the United States and Canada by Abraham Flexner, a review of medical schools across the country commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation, led to millions of dollars in funding for schools such as Harvard, which enrolled mostly upper-class white male students.

Right before the Princeton battle, Washington informed Philadelphia financier Robert Morris that “we have the greatest occasion at present for hard money to pay a certain set of people who are of particular use to us . . . Silver would be most convenient.” 19 Washington considered Morris, a huge man with a ruddy complexion and a genial personality,