In American history, we find plenty of men and women who took a contrary path, who made themselves accountable when hard choices might bring severe consequences.
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 | | Accountability in an Age of Excuses | | By Jeff Minick | | In American history, we find plenty of men and women who took a contrary path, who made themselves accountable when hard choices might bring severe consequences. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 📜 American Essence: Bret Harte, the writer who struck literary gold in the American West: Though later overshadowed by Mark Twain, Bret Harte helped establish the American West as fertile ground for literature. 🎨 Fine Arts: “Old Masters, New Amsterdam” at The New York Historical: The New York City exhibition examines life in New Amsterdam through the lens of exceptional 17th-century Dutch paintings. 🍿 Film & TV: “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” — brothers bound by justice: Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas give the famous Tombstone shootout the star power it needs. | | | |   | | The White House Bride Who Won a Nation’s Heart: At age 21, she was the youngest first lady in American history. Her husband was 27 years older and had held her in his arms when she was an infant. Theirs was the only presidential White House wedding. She was the only first lady to deliver a baby in the White House and the first presidential widow to remarry. Read more → | | | | |
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