Henry Clay
British inventor who, in 1772, introduced the technique of papier-mâché. This process, consisting of soaking paper strips in thin starchbased paste and applying them to a surface ...
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Henry Clay
Born April 12, 1777 (Hanover County, Virginia)
Died June 29, 1852 (Washington, D.C.)
Statesman, U.S. senator, congressman
Henry Clay, a Virginian by birth and a Kentuckian by choice, was a ...
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A Princely Domain.
On paper, the United States was an extremely large country at the close of the Revolutionary War. In the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war in 1783, the British ceded to the new ...
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The American political leader and secretary of state Henry Clay (1777-1852) came to national prominence as leader of the "War Hawks," who drove the country into the War of 1812. For the next 40 years ...
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During the construction of the United State's government, three curious and ambitious men became the stars of a Broadway show. John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay played vital and key rol...
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America, by Les Standiford. Crown, 319 pages, $24.95.
In Meet You in Hell, Les Standiford invites r...
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Today is Monday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2007. There are 336 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 29, 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign t...
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Today is Monday, June 18, the 169th day of 2007. There are 196 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 18, 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urg...
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 29, 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign ...
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. Everyone knows that. This campaign makes for strange bed-hopping. (How post-modern.) Hillary haters find themselves cheering Sen. Ted Kennedy to rally Democrats b...
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The modern presidency operates as if by script, with carefully chosen crowds, painstakingly shaped words and backdrops picked for just the right effect.As in life, so, too, in death.The funeral of ...
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In 2004, the voters of Arizona, by 56 percent to 44 percent, enacted Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship before an individual may vote or receive state benefits. Forty-six percent of Hi...
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“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This...
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“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This...
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Emily T. Frick and Dr. Henry Clay Frick II, the grandson of the legendary steel magnate, have bought a co-op at 3 East 77th Street.
The $3.9 million purchase comes eight months after the couple so...
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Henry Clay
Clay, Henry
Westward Expansion 1800-1860: Government and Politics
Henry Clay
Three Sectional Leaders
A Novelist Does History; Gilds a Gilded Age Tale
