by Mike Purdy | May 13, 2015 | Benjamin Harrison, Bill Clinton, Elections, Franklin Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Ronald Reagan, Terms of Office, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
In our nation’s history, ten incumbent Presidents have been defeated at the polls when seeking a second term in the White House. Here’s the list of the unfortunate Presidents who were rejected by the voters: Election Year Defeated President ...
by Mike Purdy | May 6, 2015 | Benjamin Harrison, Bill Clinton, Books, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Electoral College, Franklin Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, George Washington, Gerald Ford, Grover Cleveland, James Madison, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, John Quincy Adams, Name Changes, Presidential History Roundup, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Speeches, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Zachary Taylor
Presidential History Roundup #7: An Unlikely Presidential Friendship, Top 10 Presidential Dogs, Dynasties, New Reagan Biography, No Money to Attend Inauguration. Interesting news about Presidential history from PresidentialHistory.com. Washington Borrowed Money to...
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 | Feb 16, 2015 | George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Uncategorized
In 1793, in a precursor to today’s concept of “crowdfunding” (the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, usually online), the men who would be the nation’s first four Presidents...
by Mike Purdy | Sep 3, 2014 | George Washington, John Adams, White House
With a brokered deal in which regional interests competed for the permanent capital of the fledgling new United States of America, it was decided that the temporary capital for ten years would be located in the city that had birthed the Declaration of Independence and...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 22, 2013 | Assassinations, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson
November 22, 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the fourth president to die from a bullet. For those of us old enough to remember November 22, 1963, that day and the events of that day don’t really seem that...