(Wikipedia) Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. They marche...

(Wikipedia) Maryland, a slave state, was one of the border states, straddling the North and South. Due to its location and a desire from b...

  (NYTimes) When Abraham Lincoln took office in March 1861, the executive branch was small and relatively limited in its power. By the ...

(Wikipedia) ... Pelosi was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The youngest of six children, she was involved with politics from an early age. Her...

  (Wikipedia) Thomas McKean (March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County,...

(Wikipedia) ... Sickles's career was replete with personal scandals. He was censured by the New York State Assembly for escorting a k...

  (Gazette.Net) There are some ill-informed denizens of Frederick County who labor under the misapprehension that the tea party movement...

(Wikipedia)  Katharine Edgar Byron (October 25, 1903 – December 28, 1976), a democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6t...

'On July 28, 1932, protesters known as the "Bonus Army," or "Bonus Expeditionary Forces (B.E.F.)," who had gathe...

(Wikipedia) John Hunn (June 29, 1849 – September 1, 1926) was an American businessman and politician from Camden, in Kent County, Delawar...

(Baltimore Sun) Elinor Isabel "Judy" Agnew, who as the wife of former Baltimore County Executive, Maryland Gov. and Vice Pres...

(NYTimes) “A nickel-plated son of a bitch.” That was how David R. Locke, an Ohio newspaperman and the most daring comedian of the Civi...

... He had made up honor early in his life and stuck with his rules, fierce in the protection of them. In 1951 he went to jail because he...

(LoC) On May 21, 1796, attorney and statesman Reverdy Johnson was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Johnson represented Maryland, a slaveholdi...

(NYTimes) ... Three days later, Lincoln wrote to Henry J. Raymond, the editor of The New York Times, pointing out that “one half-day’s cost ...

(Wikipedia) Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was a colorful and controversial American politician, Union General in the...

(NYTBR) What is striking about “Honor in the Dust,” Gregg Jones’s fascinating new book about the Philippine-American War, is not how much wa...

(LoC) Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, compelling advocate of free speech, the eight-hour work day , and birth control, was ar...

(Baltimore Sun) For Mervin Savoy, recognition was sweet — even if it came more than two centuries too late. Savoy was one of hundreds of Pis...

(LoC) Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States and a founder of the Democratic Party, was born on December 5, 1782, in Kinder...