In 1884 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. gave a remarkable speech in which he explained how grief and memory for the fallen dead unite the nation on Memorial Day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born on September 30, 1929 to parents Oliver and Freda (Swanstrom) Holmes in Beresford, South Dakota. He attended the Beresford area schools and farmed with his ...

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This article appears in the August 26-September 2, 2019 issue.. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Library of Congress / Silsbee, Case, and Co.) Wounded three times during the Civil War—once when a ...

One of the greatest giants in all American jurisprudence was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who sat on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years, from 1902 to ...

Not long ago I heard a young man ask why people still kept up Memorial Day, and it set me thinking of the answer. Not the answer that you and ...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Individual Liberty, and the Constitution. Damon Root | 6.23.2009 2:03 PM. Share on Facebook Share on X Share on Reddit Share by email Print friendly version Copy ...

The choice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., then in his 15th year on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, to deliver an address commemorating Memorial Day in 1895 was a logical one. He was not on… ...

Library of Congress historian Ryan Reft talks about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s "black book" - a list of books read by the Justice.

Holmes Jr. was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a Cambridge poet and physician who wrote "Old Ironsides." Holmes Jr. went on to become a United States Supreme Court justice.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A Life in War, Law, and Ideas By Stephen Budiansky. This year is a propitious time for Stephen Budiansky’s new biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Exactly a ...