Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man: The Early Years in Congress, 1844-1850 (Reg Ankrom - WH) Section - Gettysburg Monuments the farm served as a

the farm served as a retreat from the Washington pressure cooker

From apparitions of fires and soldiers struggling in the cold at Valley Forge

General James Longstreet sheds new light on the controversial commander and the man Robert E

edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon

The result is a fascinating portrait of not only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal democracy

Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man: The Early Years in Congress, 1844-1850 (Reg Ankrom - WH) Section - Gettysburg Monuments the farm served as aStephen A. Douglas, Western Man: The Early Years in Congress, 1844 1850 by Reg Ankrom It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U. S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first