Melissa Cassel: 18 books

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4, 1826. This was exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a military policy. The Proclamation helped to preserve the Union. President Lincolns advisors were not for the Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the top ten documents in America.

This book is about little known facts about America. Santa Claus, Indiana receives over 1 million letters and requests near Christmas time. Santa Fe, New Mexico has the honor of being the oldest state capitol in the United States.

The Confederate officers were ready for the Federal garrisons to fight thousands of forces. The Confederate recruits had mediocre weapons and poor ammunition.

Samuel Houston knew that his garrisons were not ready to battle Santa Anna on the battlefront. The Mexican troops had endurance and were courageous. They were not easily taken.

Imagine being a teenage boy in 1861 and a soldier. Joel believed that there should always be slavery. Abraham Lincoln declared war. He called for 75,000 volunteers, thinking it would be over in three months. Every state in the Union had to decide who to fight for the North or the South.

The only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg was a 20 year old woman. There were bullets that were found in a Gettysburg tree.

You need to keep the items that are used often in the kitchen at waist level . If you do not have little children use the front burners on the stove. The pots and pans slide them along the counter .

Bless , O Father , thy gifts to our use and us to thy service; for Christs sake. Amen. God , grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

A faith worth having is a faith worth sharing. Prayer is as important as breathing.

He was inspired by a chance conversation on the steamshipSully about European experiments in electromagnetism. If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted by electricity.

The forward thinking of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, has helped women gain rights for being able to sign a contract, inheriting property, being on a jury, equal wages and the right to vote. Martha Washington was a subject of the royal crown of England. Louisa Adams was the United States...

Imagine being trapped in a burning building on the eighth , ninth and tenth floors of the Asch Building in New York City . It happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on Saturday , March 25, 1911 at 4:40 p.m. There was no way to contact the people on the ninth floor. The fire probably started under a cutter table .

The book Abraham Lincoln , The Story Teller , is about how he lived his life.