American Presidents
American Presidents
- Abraham Lincoln: Omens, plots and the shocking death of the 16th president
- Dwight Eisenhower: Supreme Allied Commander in Europe before he became president
- Eisenhower and School Desegregation: The President sent 1,200 Arkansas National Guard to Little Rock, thereby allowing nine black students to attend Central High School in 1957
- Election Politics in the 19th Century: Posters made the points in the days before television
- FDR's Court-Packing Plan: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, attempting to influence decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court, tried to "pack the court" with FDR-supporting justices
- Franklin Roosevelt - Last Address to Congress: President Roosevelt was a sick man after he returned from the Yalta Conference. In his last address to Congress - on March 1, 1945 - he also publicly acknowledged his crippling case of polio. Click on "result" in the last paragraph.
- George Washington: The only unanimously elected President
- Harry Truman: Approves Dropping the Atomic Bomb
- James Garfield: After serving just a few months as the 20th president, Garfield was shot by a deranged office seeker
- JFK and his Family: Happiness before Dallas
- JFK's Finest Hour: Standing firm against the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- John F. Kennedy: Assassination in Dallas
- John Quincy Adams: After his years as President, he successfully argued (in the United States Supreme Court) for the release of the Amistad defendants
- Lyndon Baines Johnson: Decides to "Go Big" in Vietnam and becomes a casualty of that war
- Political Cartoons of American Presidents: Pictures are better than words
- Theodore R. Roosevelt, Jr.: One of the faces on Mount Rushmore is of America's youngest president
- Thomas Jefferson: Drafter of the Declaration of Independence
- William McKinley: Assassination of a much-loved President at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion


















