by Mike Purdy | May 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
20 Years in the Making: Two longtime secretaries of Abraham Lincoln spent 20 years with exclusive access to the slain president’s personal papers. The research conducted by John Hay and John Nicolay resulted in them writing a 10 volume history of Lincoln that...
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 | May 3, 2015 | Benjamin Harrison, Campaigns, George Washington, James Garfield, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William McKinley
Washington Didn’t Campaign for President: George Washington set the standard that held for years of not campaigning for President. Of course, he was the only president who won with unanimous support of the Electoral College. Front Porch Campaigns: As the...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 30, 2015 | White House, William Henry Harrison
Do You Know How Many Rooms Are In The White House? Five year old Macey Hensley does. She’s an expert on presidential trivia from Kansas. Appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 28, 2015, she went head-to-head with Kevin Spacey who plays the president...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 29, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Chester Arthur, Constitution, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Impeachments, James Buchanan, John F. Kennedy, Presidential History Roundup, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt
Presidential History Roundup #6: Assassins, Sports, Performance, Impeachment, Nomination Process, JFK Quiz. Interesting news about Presidential history: How Much Do You Know About JFK? Take this short, multiple choice quiz with just 10 questions plus one bonus...
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