by Mike Purdy | May 4, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Books, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Lyndon B. Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses Grant, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson
If you are looking for finding good biographies about the Presidents, the following are some good resources to check out: Best Presidential Biographies: Stephen Floyd maintains a very helpful website in which he posts his reviews of all the presidential biographies...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 22, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, Harry Truman, James Garfield, James Madison, Lyndon B. Johnson, Post Presidencies, Presidential History Roundup, Richard Nixon, Warren Harding, White House, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
Presidential History Roundup #5: Interesting news about Presidential history: Presidents Who Knew Babe Ruth: Fascinating article by presidential historian Michael Beschloss on baseball great Babe Ruth’s connections with various presidents and one future...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 27, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson
The following is the list of nine books about the Presidents that I read in 2014: Thomas Jefferson – From Boy to Man, by Jayne D’Alessandro-Cox, 342 pages. This book is more a personal account of Jefferson’s early years than it is a description of...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 12, 2015 | Elections, Electoral College, Woodrow Wilson
I am thrilled to announce the debut of a new project of mine: Presidential History News. It is premiering on my recently launched resource website PresidentialHistory.com, where I am also now publishing this blog. Reporting Live From History: Presidential History News...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 7, 2014 | Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was born in the waning days of 1856 in Staunton, Virginia to a Presbyterian minister father. The actual date of Wilson’s birthday has been clouded in controversy. Click here to read my earlier blog posting on this issue.Woodrow...
by Mike Purdy | Feb 26, 2013 | Barack Obama, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, Inaugurations, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson
FDR’s 4th oath of officeWhen we think about which presidents took the oath of office the most number of times, obviously Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately comes to mind. FDR was elected to an unprecedented four terms as president and took the oath of...
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