Richard Clement Wade (July 14, 1921 – July 18, 2008) was an American historian and urban studies professor who advised many Democratic politicians and candidates. As a historian, he pioneered the interdisciplinary application of social science...
Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (c. 1767 – July 2, 1822) was a free Black man and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822. Although the alleged plot was discovered before...
Johnnie Wade (born John Webb; 30 March 1932) is a retired British film and television actor. He played the put upon handyman 'Roger' in the ITV Yorkshire TV comedy series You're Only Young Twice between 1977 and 1981. Born in Bethnal Green, he was a...
From January 24 to June 20, 1972, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1972 United States presidential election. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was selected as the nominee through a series of primary...
The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in American history at the University of Oxford, tenable for one year. The Harmsworth Professorship was established by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940) in...
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal...
Richard Timothy Jones (born January 16, 1972) is an American actor. He has worked in film and television since the early 1990s. His television roles include Ally McBeal (1997), Judging Amy (1999–2005), CSI: Miami (2006), Girlfriends (2007), Grey's...
The 8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment was a unit of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Established by a July 1862 merger of two separate Alabama and Mississippi cavalry battalions, the 8th Confederate regiment fought in...
Wade Hampton McCree Jr. (July 3, 1920 – August 30, 1987) was an American legal scholar and judge. He was the first African American appointed as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the second...
Darian Okoe Mensah (born January 25, 2005) is an American college football quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes. He previously played for the Tulane Green Wave and Duke Blue Devils.
