How many presidential pardons or sentence commutations have been granted to people from Illinois?
Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...
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A century ago, Chattanooga’s municipal organist debuted the $50,000 instrument inside Memorial Auditorium
Noted psychoanalyst Gertrude Steele Chambers has reached the end of her series of nine lectures on the subject of "The New ...
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Caulking the path to progress: Meet Isaac Myers, the man who the sealed the gaps in opportunity for maritime workers
Discover the inspiring story of Isaac Myers, a pioneering Baltimore caulker and advocate for union rights, who fought for fair wages and equal opportunities for Black workers in the 1800s.
‘We help our customers feel’: The retiring owners of Spokane’s oldest florist shop reflect on decades of service for Valentine’s Day
A bouquet, in any form, is an expression of emotions, said Susie Matteson, former owner of Peters and Sons Flowers and Gifts.
Two Minnesota women escaped prison and hid for months as 'husband and wife'
They didn't hit the road in a convertible and most likely didn't pick up a charming drifter who looked like Brad Pitt. Nonetheless, Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle might be the closest thing ...
Opening up the Bird Rock vault: New project will showcase photos of the past
Community Council Vice President Joe Parker is working to display digitized photographs from Bird Rock’s ‘very rich history’ ...
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They Won’t Let Sacco and Vanzetti Die
Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought ...
How Rural English Women Used Scrapbooks To Commemorate The Death Of Winston Churchill
Sixty years ago, on January 24, Britons gathered around their radios to listen to the sombre BBC announcement that Sir Winston Churchill had died at ...
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...
Atonement by Ian McEwan is a meditation on creativity in later life
In Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), aspiring writer 13-year-old Briony Tallis glimpses a world of opaque “adult emotion”. Holding a pen and blank paper before her, she feels a powerful impulse to write ...
When York County built a home for children, poor people and those with disabilities
The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...
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The war against bacteria: how were sulphonamide drugs used by Britain during World War II?
By examining Medical Research Council records, particularly war memorandums, as well as medical journals, archives and newspaper reports, this paper hopes to highlight the importance of the ...