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.
George Washington inherited property on the Potomac River, called Mount Vernon, learn more about the development of the property.
Less than two months after her husband was killed, Mrs.
After the fatal shot was fired at her husband, Mrs. Kennedy suddenly moves to the trunk of JFK's car. What was she attempting to do?
Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.
On his way to the Battle of Marengo, where Napoleon defeated Austria, the First Counsel of France had to traverse the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass. Jacque...
The Trail of Tears, which describes a bleak period in U.S. history, occurred after the U.S. federal government forced Native Americans to leave their ...
On June 23, 1972, an audio recorder taped a damaging talk - called "The Smoking Gun" - between Nixon and Haldeman. This photo depicts the Watergate Co...
In this image we see an original draft, in President Kennedy's handwriting, of the famous phrase in his inaugural address: "Ask not what your country ...
Attending the Potsdam Conference in Europe, President Truman wanted to avoid dropping an atomic bomb over Japan until he had left the meetings.
President William Jefferson Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar Chavez a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Although doctors searched for the derringer ball that killed Abraham Lincoln, they could not locate it with their probe. Something else had to happen ...
Life was not easy for President Johnson and Robert McNamara (Johnson's Secretary of Defense) as the Vietnam War dragged on.
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