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Posted by: Cait Miller
On June 3, 1888, Ernest Thayer’s beloved poem “Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888” was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. Though not an instant hit, the poem was republished a few months later in the New York Sun with some changes and attributed to “Anon”. …
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Posted by: Pat Padua
On this day in 1924, Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States. In the Muse remembers this day with American Indian Melodies, one of the first publications by the Wa-Wan Press. Arthur Farwell, who harmonized the traditional melodies, founded the imprint in 1901 as …
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Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Head of Acquisitions & Processing Denise Gallo. When the Civil War began, Lincoln’s army was under the command of a well-seasoned war hero, General Winfield Scott. For the task at hand, though, his reputation served little, since Scott, whose initial Army commission had been issued in 1808, was …
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