The complete online text of Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot.

The American educator Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909 and transformed the college into a modern university. Born in Boston on March 20, 1834, of a distinguished New England family, Charles W. Eliot graduated f...

Bordering North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa is the state of South Dakota, home to Mount Rushmore's big- headed presidents. Mount Rushmore was named after a New York lawyer in 1885 long before the monument was dreamt of. On the mountainside amid...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2002 -- Four of the Defense Departments top leaders took to the microphone today to explain to a Pentagon audience exactly what they do. The Under Secretaries of Defense each spoke briefly and answered questions from Pentagon employees Edward...