Assent tweed biography of abraham

[Assent.] Mr. Abraham Lincoln has displayed in the afflicting struggle which con vulses his country that calm firmness and that invincible energy which.

André Reynolds Tweed, a 1942 graduate of the Howard University College of Medicine who in 1950 became the first board-certified African American.

A wonerful piece of correspondence between Lincoln and the general best remembered for his 1880 work Ben Hur and not his significant war record.

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Combating Empire’s Blinkered History: The Landmark Repatriation of Tweed MS150

How the landmark repatriation of an ancient Ethiopic codex challenges our methods of worship, the histories we tell, and the erasures of empire.

Featured image: The Tweed MS150 codex, containing the Acts of Paul and Acts of Sarabamon. Reproduced from the André Tweed Collection.

“From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.”

— Zephaniah 3:10 (ESV)

SEVEN YEARS AGO, just before the spring semester was about to begin, Professor Alice O. Bellis sent a terse email at seven o’clock on a Sunday evening to Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick. Her message contained reference to the adverse publicity the university would receive if it came to light that Howard was in possession of a rare Ethiopic manuscript stolen from its monastery of origin, probably more than a decade before it came to the United States. Urgently, she asked for Frederick’s office to get in touch that week for a meeting, risking the ire of her deans by going directly to the school’s top administrator.

Within two hours, a surprising response beckoned from her inbox, interrupting her usual bedtime plans. President Frederick was re

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Encyclopedia of Civil War Biography - Thr-Tyn

THRASHER, John S, journalist, born in Portland, Maine, in 1817; died in Galveston, Texas, 10 November, 1879. While he was a youth his parents moved to Havana, Cuba, where he followed for some time a successful mercantile career, but abandoned it for journalism, purchasing, in 1849, the " Faro Industrial," which was then the only Liberal newspaper. In September, 1851, his paper was suppressed, and he was condemned by court-martial to ten years' imprisonment with hard labor at Ceuta and perpetual banishment from Cuba. After several months the U. S. minister at Madrid secured his release. He afterward established in New Orleans a Sunday journal called the " Beacon of Cuba," and in 1853-5 was an active member of the junta that organized a filibustering expedition to he led by General John A. Quitman. When the U. S. authorities prevented the departure of this expedition, Thrasher went to New York City. For several years he travelled in Central and South America as a newspaper correspondent, and edited the "Noticioso de nuevo York," a journal devoted to the interests of Spanish-American countries. Marrying a lady whose property was in Texas, he moved to the south, and remained there during the Civil War, ac

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George B. McClellan (1826-1885)

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