(Encyclopedia) bluestocking, derisive term originally applied to certain 18th-century women with pronounced literary interests. During the 1750s, Elizabeth Vesey held evening parties, at which the…
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JORDAN, Barbara Charline, a Representative from Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., February 21, 1936; educated in the public schools of Houston, Tex.; graduated, Phillis Wheatley…
Senate Years of Service: 1907-1912Party: DemocratTAYLOR, Robert Love, (son of Nathaniel Green Taylor and brother of Alfred Alexander Taylor), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee;…
Senate Years of Service: 1959-1963Party: DemocratLONG, Oren Ethelbirt, a Senator from Hawaii; born in Altoona, Wilson County, Kans., March 4, 1889; attended the public schools; graduated from…
REECE, Brazilla Carroll, (husband of Louise G. Reece), a Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Butler, Johnson County, Tenn., December 22, 1889; attended the public schools,…
The World Series The World Series began in 1903 when Pittsburgh of the older National League (founded in 1876) invited Boston of the American League (founded in 1901) to play a best-of-9 game…
(Encyclopedia) Freedmen's Bureau, in U.S. history, a federal agency, formed to aid and protect the newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War. Established by an act of Mar. 3, 1865, under…
(Encyclopedia) Mies van der Rohe, LudwigMies van der Rohe, Ludwigl&oomacr;tˈvĭkh mēˈĕs vän dĕr rōˈə [key], 1886–1969, German-American architect. A pioneer of modern architecture and one of its…
(Encyclopedia) Reconstruction, 1865–77, in U.S. history, the period of readjustment following the Civil War. At the end of the Civil War, the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical…
