Lincoln Before Gettysburg: A Portrait One Year Before Reelection
On Sunday, November 8, 1863, Abraham Lincoln sat for photographer Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C. Eleven days later, he would deliver the Gettysburg Address. Exactly one year after this portrait ...
Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Southern Memory
Born in Atlanta on November 8, 1900, Margaret Mitchell grew up surrounded by stories of the Civil War and its aftermath. Confederate veterans and older relatives helped shape her understanding ...
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The Voices of the Front Line: General Pershing’s “Hello Girls”
On November 8, 1917, General John J. Pershing cabled the War Department with a request that would bring American women into a vital wartime role. Facing a shortage of qualified ...
The Defiant Dental Surgeon: Doc Holliday’s Final Battle
On November 8, 1887, John Henry "Doc" Holliday passed away at the Hotel Glenwood in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, bringing a peaceful end to one of the most volatile and mythologized ...
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The Shooting Star and the MiG: A Milestone in Jet Combat
On November 8, 1950, First Lieutenant Russell J. Brown engaged a MiG-15 near Sinuiju, North Korea, in an encounter celebrated as the first jet-to-jet aerial victory. Flying a Lockheed F-80C ...
The Trent Affair: A Seizure at Sea, a Crisis with Britain
On November 8, 1861, a Union naval captain made a decision that turned a wartime interception into an international crisis. Captain Charles Wilkes, commanding the USS San Jacinto, stopped the ...
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Wedding Bells at No. 1: The 5th Dimension’s “Wedding Bell Blues”
You may remember it as “Marry Me, Bill,” but its official title is “Wedding Bell Blues.” On the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated November 8, 1969, the 5th Dimension’s recording reached No ...
Joseph K. Toole and Montana’s Road to Statehood
On November 8, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed the proclamation admitting Montana to the Union as the forty-first state. That same day, Joseph Kemp Toole began serving as Montana’s first ...
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