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.
After World War II, General Dwight David Eisenhower was extremely popular.
Mamie Till-Mobley tells the story of her son's death and the fight she had to mount in order to have her son's body returned to Chicago from Mississip...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt first took the Presidential oath on the 4th of March, 1933.
George Herbert Walker Bush was sworn in as America's 41st president on the 20th of January, 1989.
At the end of America's revolutionary war, thirteen U.S. states had thirteen different sets of laws. The question became: "Are we to be a nation?" If...
After serving as America's only unanimously elected President, George Washington returned to his beloved home - Mount Vernon - where he died on the 14...
George Walker Bush - born on July 6, 1946 - is the oldest child of President George H.
When Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on the 9th of August, 1974, America's Vice-President was sworn in as the country's 38th chief executive.
It is November 19, 1863, and President Lincoln has a very difficult job. He must deliver an address at the Gettysburg battlefield. He speaks words whi...
Harry Truman had been America's vice president for just a few months when FDR died, unexpectedly, on the 12th of April, 1945.
Within seconds after Ronald Reagan became America's 40th President, the remaining embassy hostages were freed after 444 days of captivity in Iran. ...
At the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles - on the 15th of July, 1960 - John F.
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