What Are the Best Biographies of the Presidents?

by | 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...

Which Presidents Who Died in Office Had the Potential to be Great?

by | Mar 30, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Deaths, Franklin Roosevelt, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, Zachary Taylor

In our nation’s history, close to 20% of our presidents have died in office, either through assassination or death.  Some of their terms were very short, thus making it difficult for historians to assess their performance during their brief tenure.  But two...

Which Untimely Presidential Transition Affected the County the Most?

by | Mar 16, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Assassinations, Calvin Coolidge, Chester Arthur, Deaths, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, John Tyler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Richard Nixon, Terms of Office, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, Zachary Taylor

Lincoln by a landslide: The weary nation breathed a sigh of relief as the hostilities of the long and wrenching War Between the States closed that frightful chapter of history. But before the wounds began to heal, the bloodshed that had taken a generation of young...