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On WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: A fall guy is the guy who takes the blame for someone else.
On WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: There are many terms for expressing surprise, shock and anger.
On WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: He was a jack of all trades.
On THE MAKING OF A NATION: Congress impeached the president in 1868 after he dismissed the war secretary. But senators found him not gu
On THE MAKING OF A NATION: The nation was at peace. But the new president's move to pardon Confederates made enemies of the radical Rep
On THE MAKING OF A NATION: General Robert E. Lee accepted defeat in early April 1865. Other Confederate armies were too small and too w
On THE MAKING OF A NATION: Eight prisoners faced trial. The government tried to prove that the assassination of President Abraham Linco
He was murdered less than a week after the North's victory in the Civil War. Transcript of radio broadcast:
On THE MAKING OF A NATION: ''Boys, I have done the best I could for you. Go home now. And if you make as good citizens as you have sold
On WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: The story of the man in the red suit who brings gifts to children at Christmas.
On THE MAKING OF A NATION: In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee agreed to discuss terms of a surrender, after Union forces captured Rich
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