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Roscoe CONKLING, Congress, NY (1829-1888)
Senate Years of Service: 1867-1881 Party: Republican CONKLING Roscoe , a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., October 30, 1829; moved with his parents to Auburn, N.Y.,…SYMINGTON, William Stuart (Stuart), Congress, MO (1901-1988)
Senate Years of Service: 1953-1976 Party: Democrat SYMINGTON, William Stuart (Stuart), (father of James Wadsworth Symington, son-in-law of James Wadsworth), a Senator from Missouri; born in…Women's Suffrage and the Constitution: Chapter V
Chapter IV. The Story of the...Chapter VI Objections to the...Chapter V. Federal Action and State Rights Henry Wade RogersJudge of the United States Circuit Court of…2001 PEN Literary Award Winners
PEN/Laura Pels Award for DramaRichard Foreman, master American dramatistCharles L. Mee, playwright in mid-careerPEN/Kolovakos Award for Hispanic TranslationGregory Rabassa and Alastair…College and University Endowments, 2013
Which institutions of higher learning have the largest endowments? Find the top ten below. Rank Institution Endowment1 1. Harvard University (…College and University Endowments
Sitting on a mountain of money An endowment in a type of trust or fund set aside for a particular purpose. In the case of colleges, the endowment is a fund (which perpetuates and grows over time)…1999 National Medal of Science Recipients
David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and professor of biology and president, California Institute of Technology, for far-reaching, fundamental discoveries that dramatically altered the field of…Vincent Price
Vincent Price was a stage and screen actor known mostly as a suave, gentlemanly escort through the world of Hollywood horror, from the 1940s up through 1990’s Edward Scissorshands. Price was raised…Colonial American and Ivy League Colleges
America's oldest and prestigious universities While a number of present-day colleges were founded as secondary schools before the American Revolution, only nine existed as colleges at that point.…Most Expensive U.S. Colleges and Universities
The priciest diplomas in the land It's well-known that the cost of education has skyrocketed in the past two decades. But, determining exactly how much school will cost is dependent on a lot of…Trending
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