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Charles A. Sumner
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery, and after the war he was a key figure in the Reconstruction era, during which he and other Radical Republicans successfully fought to end slavery and ensure basic rights for Black Americans. He continued advocating for racial equality until his death, lobbying in his final days for a civil rights bill that served as a model for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians credit Sumner with coining the phrase "equality before the law," which he first used as part of an early attempt to integrate Boston's public school system. Sumner chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871, until he lost the position following a dispute with President Ulysses S. Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo.
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Memorial Day
It's seven days before Memorial Day and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States. So Mitch Rapp goes to Afganistan where his team uncovers and destroys plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. But was this too easy?
Then and now
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme au Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, d'octobre à décembre 2013. Artiste majeure de l'art américain et international Carolee Schneemann (née en 1939 à Fox Chase, Pennsylvanie) a pris part dès le tournant des années 1960 à l'effervescente scène artistique new-yorkaise. Son oeuvre de peintre et sa participation aux premiers happenings s'inscrivent dans la mouvance néo-dadaïste et Fluxus. En 1964, sa performance de groupe Meat Joy est jouée à l'American Center à Paris, puis au Kinetic Theater à New York : cette mise en scène orgiaque et dionysiaque où des danseurs dénudés dansent avec des objets, de la peinture mais aussi de la viande ou des poulets, est un moment crucial pour le body art et la libération du corps et des moeurs.
A trip to Pioche
1873
Sumner, Charles A. – A Trip to Pioche – Being a Sketch of Recent Frontier Travel - A printed pamphlet by Bacon & Co. San Francisco, August 17th 1873 of a paper delivered at Dashaway Hall. 13 pp. Advertisements on verso of front wrapper and on both sides of rear wrapper. 8¾x5¾, original printed wrappers. First Edition. "To a San Franciscan of the early 1870's, the "frontier" would be the Nevada wilds east of Virginia City. In the spring of 1873 the author made such a trip, riding on the five-year old rails of the Central Pacific to Palisades, the nearest stage departure for Nevada's southeastern mines. Sumner intimately describes his delightful ride to Pioche - the coach itself, its passengers, some of the stations and their inhabitants, roads and scenery enroute." (Paher). Much discussion on mining operations in Nevada; interestingly George Hearst was one of the passengers. Cowan p.625; Graff, 4031; Paher 1917.