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Wilberforce, Samuel
(Encyclopedia) Wilberforce, SamuelWilberforce, Samuelwĭlˈbərfôrs [key], 1805–73, English prelate; son of William Wilberforce. In 1845 he became bishop of Oxford. He did not support the Oxford…biography
(Encyclopedia) biography, reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography—an individual's interpretation of his own life—it shares a venerable…William H. Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquist was Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005. William Rehnquist was working in a private law practice in Arizona when President Richard Nixon…Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
(Encyclopedia) Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table).McCarthy, Eugene Joseph
(Encyclopedia) McCarthy, Eugene Joseph, 1916–2005, U.S. political leader, b. Watkins, Minn. He served (1942–46) as a technical assistant for military intelligence during World War II and then taught…Evarts, William Maxwell
(Encyclopedia) Evarts, William MaxwellEvarts, William Maxwellĕvˈərts [key], 1818–1901, American lawyer and statesman, b. Boston; grandson of Roger Sherman. After attending Harvard Law School he began…Reconstruction
(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…Iroquois Confederacy
(Encyclopedia) Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois LeagueIroquois Confederacyĭrˈəkwoiˌ, –kwäˌ [key], North American confederation of indigenous peoples, initially comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga…Longfellow, Samuel
(Encyclopedia) Longfellow, Samuel, 1819–92, American clergyman and hymn writer, b. Portland, Maine; brother and biographer of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was a Unitarian pastor in Fall River, Mass…Dustin, Hannah
(Encyclopedia) Dustin, Hannah, b. 1657, d. after 1729, Colonial New England heroine. She was captured (1697) in a Native American raid on Haverhill, Mass., and taken up the Merrimack River to a place…Trending
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