U.S. Presidents: Facts and Elections

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Presidential Election Facts

With more than two centuries’ worth of U.S. presidential elections, the historical ledger is filled with an array of facts. For example, when Donald Trump was named the 45th president, he was really only the 44th president because Grover Cleveland is counted twice. And with Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution […]

Memorable Elections

2016 Candidates: Hillary Clinton (Democrat), Donald Trump (Republican), Jill Stein (Green Party), Gary Johnson (Libertarian)Winner: Donald TrumpPopular Vote: 65,844,610 (Clinton) to 62,979,636 (Trump)Electoral College: 227 (Clinton) to 304 (Trump) The 2016 election was one of five elections in U.S. history in which the winner of the electoral votes did not carry the popular vote. Hillary […]

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Earlier Life Oswald was born in New Orleans in 1939. His father died of a heart attack two months before he was born. After living off and on in orphanages as a boy, he moved with his mother to New York at age 12, where he was sent to a youth detention […]

Mount Rushmore

The Loss of a Sacred Land In the Treaty of Fort Laramie, signed in 1868 by Sioux tribes and General William T. Sherman, the U.S. government promised the Sioux “undisturbed use and occupation” of territory including the Black Hills, in what is now South Dakota. But the discovery of gold in the region soon led […]

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Advice from the Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson

Over the course of his life, Thomas Jefferson developed a list of ideas for those wishing to be on their best personal behavior. A Dozen Canons of Conduct in Life, is a list he sent to his granddaughter, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph.

George Washington: Greatest Challenges

After George Washington took the oath of office on April 30, 1789 in New York City, he faced a variety of leadership challenges, both foreign and domestic.

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LBJ, Before the War on Poverty

LBJ spent time after college teaching impoverished Mexican‑American immigrants on the border of Texas and Mexico, an experience that shaped his personality and presidential ambitions.

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Here’s Why President Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy Was a Failure

Learn what inspired President Taft to implement Dollar Diplomacy — getting Americans to invest money in other countries to maintain global influence — from 1909 to 1913. See how this policy failed in China, as well as in Central America and Mexico.

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