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DAYS: The first hundred days of a president’s term are considered a benchmark for action. How did it become so important? We owe that to Franklin D. R...

PRESIDENTS 3: The National Constitution Center is the source of lots of great information, including facts about American presidents. William Howard T...

PRESIDENTIAL 2: We promised more details from the National Constitution Center about the American presidents. Millard Fillmore, 13th president, refuse...

PRESIDENTIAL: This month will feature the inauguration of the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, only the second president to serve no...

SPEECH: Since George Washington in 1789, every President has delivered an Inaugural address, ranging from 8,445 words to just 135. The 60th Presidenti...

Jimmy Carter burst on to the national political scene during difficult times. The previous years had been marked by the turbulent 1960s and Vietnam. W...

He left office in a stunning landslide defeat after a single term as the nation’s 39th president. But Jimmy Carter wasn’t done yet. Instead of withdra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter's memorial journey will end at his house in the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, where he grew up on a peanut farm. That i...

HOME: The general election will determine who will be moving into the White House next year. Who was the first? History.com tells us more about the ho...

PART TWO: Here’s a second part of the Brittanica quiz on presidential elections. The questions are tougher than one might think. 1. Which presidential...

QUIZ: In honor of the pending presidential election, we’re sharing some of 61 questions that Britannica featured in a presidential election quiz on it...

PARKS: Which American presidents did the most to preserve the land we love as national parks and preserves? With the presidential election around the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than ot...

MADE UP: There have been multiple instances throughout history when the words already in the daily lexicon just aren’t enough to accommodate the thoug...

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