Mary McLeod Bethune, an influential educator activist, recognized that going to school could be a form of activism. Her groundbreaking work helped change America for the better.

When you think of American tough guys, who springs to mind? Probably not the President. But two-term Commander-in-Chief Teddy Roosevelt was hard as nails.

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Find out more about the failed break-in which lead to the downfall of President Richard Nixon, and also gave lazy journalists a quick way of naming scandals!

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Manny Man Does Comparing the Presidents of the USA! Let’s see how the presidents measure up beside each other, literally and metaphorically! Enjoy! Please share!

Explore the history of the African American struggle within the United States.

History Abridged: John Wilkes Booth (ft. Atun-Shei Films)

Footnotes: 0:26 Shame on anyone listening to this through poor quality speakers and not getting to hear this sound design 1:15 You might rightly ask "How could he pay for such an army after being unemployed for a while?" and clearly you...

I don’t know about you, but the impression I always got of Lincoln’s assassination was that John Wilkes Booth was an actor who really, really hated the president and so in the middle of his show he snuck into the president’s box and...

Everyone knows the United States had a civil war in the 1800s. Lincoln wins election, the South secedes, the Union prevails, slavery’s abolished (mostly), Lincoln’s mind is blown at the theater, kids stuff. Well… we had one civil war,...

1762 - In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, France loses the Louisiana Territory to Spain. When Spain returns the land to France in an 1801 treaty, Americans worry about what the aggressive Napoleon Bonaparte might do with it....

George Washington is born without a middle name. At the age of eleven, his father dies, and he inherits a farm and slaves. In his teens, George becomes a county surveyor and buys more land. At twenty, and with no military experience, he...

February 12, 1809 - Abraham Lincoln is born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. With no formal education, Lincoln wins a seat in the Illinois state legislature and becomes a lawyer. He weds Mary Todd, who will bear him four sons, only...

The use of atomic weapons forced the Japanese to surrender. Many argue that the bombings were unnecessary, stating that more conventional methods may have been as effective. Casualty estimates for an invasion of mainland Japan were in...

In the wake of the American Revolutionary war, Aaron Burr rises to power in the New York political arena. He reaches the apex of his career when Thomas Jefferson and Burr tie for the office of President. Behind the scenes, attempts to...

America’s private eye, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency avails itself to a wide berth of cases. Created in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton, the Chicago police detective and his agents-for-hire first gain national prominence chasing...

November 22, 1963 - U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy receives a phone call from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, telling him that his brother, President John F. Kennedy has been shot on the streets of Dallas, Texas. At the hospital,...

Most people would simply retire after serving as the President of the United States. Not George Washington. After completing two terms as the nation’s first president, GW decided it was time to say cheers to another venture: the whiskey...

When William Henry Harrison dies in office in 1841, John Tyler, his vice president, assumes the presidency; setting a precedent for future presidential successions based on what would be called the ‘Tyler precedent’. November 22, 1963 -...

Witness Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama take...

Thomas Jefferson is born on a plantation near Charlottesville, VA. After inheriting the property, he clears the mountaintop and names it Monticello, or ‘little mountain’. In law school, Thomas is elected to the VA House of Burgesses and...

“How a Bill Becomes a Law” explains the process of how a bill becomes a law in the United States.

Determine Fact and Opinion defines fact and opinion, explains the difference between the two, and gives examples of statements that are facts and opinions.