U.S. Presidents have varying backgrounds and political persuasions. Only one was unanimously elected. They can have little or lasting influence. These stories are about individuals with the power to make a difference at home and abroad.
You think that differing politics cause hostility now? See the results of the 1800 election in which Thomas Jefferson (a Democratic-Republican) defeat...
Not long after the Nazi invasion of Norway in April of 1940, an American journalist, Leland Stowe, wrote an article for TIME magazine about the events...
Jefferson won the 1800 election, the federal government's program of excise taxes on Americans was abolished, however the role of government is still ...
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention issued a report on the 13th of September, 1787 preparing for the first federal elections.
Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts (1921) and deals with Polio until his death (1945).
Worried that people would begin to doubt that Nazi atrocities had ever occurred, General Eisenhower ordered film makers and photographers to document ...
George Washington had trouble with his teeth long before he became America's first president. This image depicts the last-surviving set of his denture...
George Washington, born in 1732, was a "Founding Father" of America. Learn about his life, who he was as a man and his surprising role model.
Nine days after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush addresses a joint session of the 107th Congress. He pledges to defend America's fre...
After the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam was taken over by North Vietnam. This angered many Americans who seriously questioned why their country had go...
The Grand Canyon, one of the world's most stunning natural wonders, became an American national monument in 1908.
Gutzon Borglum - depicted in this image - is famous for the carvings at Mount Rushmore, but that project was not the first time the sculptor attempted...
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