"Set the 'Blueprint for Modern America'"

"It’s understandable why the drama of the Civil War should overshadow the grinding legislative activities of Capitol Hill and the 37th Congress. But for anyone who has ever gone to a public university, spent a dollar bill or ridden a passenger train cross-country, it’s a legislative session that deserves to be remembered."

Mark Greenbaum in The New York Times reminds readers of the Congress of 1861 to 1863.