American Presidents Story Briefs

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.

When Americans vote for their President, they are actually voting for people called electors who then cast their ballots for President and Vice Presid...

How much power should America's branches of government have?

President McKinley was shot by an anarchist. Why did he shoot the President?

When President Truman attended the Potsdam Conference, at the conclusion of WWII in Europe, he stayed in a home which people called "The Little White ...

James Madison, America's 4th President, was also the drafter of the U.S. Constitution and the country's Bill of Rights.

While he was still a college student, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy wrote ''Why England Slept.''

Elected in 1840, William Henry Harrison is sworn-in as America's 9th President in March of 1841. He dies in office the next month.

M.N. ("Nick") McDonald, one of the Dallas police officers who arrested Oswald, says of this book: As I read "With Malice," I found myself once again c...

This facsimile image of President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address contains the famous phrase: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with ...

The first state to grant female suffrage did so in 1869 and the NAWSA worked every year thereafter to make this right a national one.

Image of a portrait photograph of the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.

Zachary Taylor, a war hero during the US/Mexican war, became America's 12th President.

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