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.
Although he joked with his doctors, on 30 March 1981, President Reagan came dangerously close to losing his life to an assassin's bullet.
Ronald Reagan became America's 40th president on January 20, 1981.
As the day of the parade draws closer, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns meet Inez Milholland.
On the day of President Kennedy's funeral, a spirited riderless horse followed the caisson bearing JFK's body.
Charles Moore - Margaret Thatcher's authorized biographer - discusses his research on the differences, and similarities, between Mikhail Gorbachev, Ro...
Theodore Roosevelt gave this speech, at Carnegie Hall, on the 20th of March, 1912.
Mary Surratt - accused of being a conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - was tried before a military tribunal, instead of a j...
Following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, who had recently won an unprecedented fourth term as Americas president, Harry Truman was sworn in as the c...
On the 20th of January, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton (formerly the governor of Arkansas) became America's 42nd president.
What did two rambunctious little boys, who lived in the White House, do for fun while their father was America's president?
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.
On the day of his father's funeral - November 25, 1963 - John F.
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