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.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress. He proposed, in that speech, to send Americans to the Moon.
John Wilkes Booth died four hours after Sgt. Boston Corbett shot him at Garrett's farm.
President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is a member of a famous acting family.
Riding a very fast roan mare, which he'd rented earlier in the day, John Wilkes Booth escapes from Ford's Theatre, is on the run for 12 days and final...
On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.
When Bobbie Lou Pendergrass lost her brother, who was an unarmed adviser in Vietnam, she wrote to President Kennedy asking why America was in Vietnam ...
Lewis Payne is arrested on April 17, 1865, three days after President Lincoln was shot. His fate is now sealed, after his attempted assassination of t...
This is a sketch of the unguarded door through which John Wilkes Booth entered just before he shot President Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's son William died on February 20th, 1862 of typhus.
Sources differ whether Lucy, a slave at Monticello, was Lucy Cottrell (the daughter of Dolly Cottrell) or Lucy (the daughter of Lilly and Barnaby, two...
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
The president himself designed the landscaped grounds where thirteen trees, from his lifetime, still survive.
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