The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 drummer in which stalwart immigrants such

in which stalwart immigrants such as Henry Chadwick could transplant cricket and rounders into the fertile American culture and in which die-hard unionist baseballers such as Charles Comiskey and Connie Mack could eventually become the tightfisted avatars of the game’s big-money establishment

the role of freed slaves

In 1920 a group of historians known as the Lincoln Inquiry were determined to give Lincoln's formative years their due

Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history

John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a production of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre

The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 drummer in which stalwart immigrants suchby Caroline Winterer Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 17801910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the