The first commercially successful barbed wire was patented by an American farmer on Nov. 24, 1874. ... The original patent on barbed wire was filed in the United States in 1867, ...

In 1851, he launched his vaunted Senate career when the Free Soil Party cut a deal for his election. His tenure was punctuated by fiery oratory, Brooks’ attack and a subsequent invalidism that failed ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Foner, Philip S. (1979). Labor Movement in the United States. International Publishers Co. p. 448. Gutman, Herbert G. "The Tompkins square 'Riot' in New York City on January 13, 1874: A re-examination ...

“The only man in the United States who thoroughly understands this moloch of a machine to which we are all inextricably hitched is Hoover.” Herbert Hoover listening to a radio (Department of ...

Washington Correspondents and Indignities to United States. ... 1874, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.

Founded in 1874, in the midst of one ... Her edited books include "Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933" (Cornell University Press, ...