To that point, Clay Cane, host of SiriusXM Urban View, is out with a new book chronicling ... reads. The book opens by highlighting how both parties changed between the Civil War and modern ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil ... war effort — himself. Hospitals were not new to him; after spending time at the bedsides of injured New York ...

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