This is a part from Elie Wiesel's Nobel lecture and he is talking about the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War as Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust and the Nazi prosecution. He believes that the past will serve as reminder and a shield so the horrors he and others went through would never repeat.
I guess Lewis Cass it should be Henry Clay that should be up there in those choices
There was an enormous amount of growth in smaller cities. Cities began to continue to grow. :)
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
National concerns shifted to overseas aggression
