U.S. History - to 1945

When Calvin Coolidge suddenly and unexpectedly became President of the United States in 1923, he had a carefully articulated and precisely p...

By the late 1930's, the misery of the Great Depression had been growing for several years. Unemployment in the United States was worse i...

Calvin Coolidge accomplished feats which proved to strengthen the United States long after he left office. In matters of domestic policy, hi...

Many nations have built empires over the centuries: the Persians, Greeks, and Romans did it in ancient times; the Spanish and British did it...

The narrative of any nation can be told as a series of dangers which threaten the country, and a series of escapes by which the land and its...

The presidency of Woodrow Wilson marked a low point for African-Americans and their struggle for civil rights. Prior to taking office, Wilso...

The Czarist regime which dominated Russian during the nineteenth century, and during the first few years of the twentieth century, was a cru...