U.S. History - to 1945

One can better understand that group of leaders we call "The Founding Fathers" by comparing them to other groups of national leade...

The political and social forces which provided the occasion for the American Revolution built gradually over at least two decades. The under...

The central issue - perhaps the only issue - in the American Revolution was liberty. The popular slogans which created the United States as ...

To which extent President Roosevelt's bad health left him too fatigued to carefully analyze the global situation in late 1945, we cannot...

When a nation goes to war, leaders often speak of unity. It is difficult for a nation which is not united in its cause to be successful in w...

Woodrow Wilson was elected in November 1912, and began his first term as president in March 1913, having earned 41.8% of the popular vote. E...

During the 1930's, the Soviet Union worked to place a number of agents in the United States. The lines were clearly drawn: the Soviets s...