July 27, 2024
Tag: James Buchanan
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James Buchanan at Home in Pennsylvania and the rankings of presidents of the United States
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Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”
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May 19, 2021 2 Comments
There is an 1857 song about a little brown church which became part of the American experience. It helped a young song-writer remember part of his youthful years, it helped pay for a medical school education, and it remains one of Christianity’s most performed hymns.