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James Buchanan (1791-1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States. His administration was dominated by fighting between pro-and antislavery forces. In 1860, at the close of his term in office, South Carolina became the first stat...
About 53 pages (16,007 words) in 2 products

James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) was an American Civil War general before becoming the twentieth president of the United States. He was assassinated after 6 months in office. James A. Garfield was born in the log cabin of American myth on ...
About 42 pages (12,456 words) in 2 products

The administration of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), eleventh president of the United States, saw America at war with Mexico. As a consequence, Polk added more territory to the United States than had any other president except Thomas Jeffers...
About 66 pages (19,799 words) in 4 products

James Madison (1751-1836), the fourth president of the United States, was one of the principal founders of America's republican form of government. James Madison lived all his life in the county of Orange, Va., on a 5,000-acre plantation t...
About 492 pages (147,495 words) in 18 products

James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth president of the United States, a founder of the Jeffersonian Republican party and a major agent in acquiring Louisiana and Florida, authored the celebrated American foreign policy statement, the Monroe Doct...
About 71 pages (21,189 words) in 4 products

In the fall of 1918, a small group of young men came together to discuss ways in order to eliminate the discrimination of their race. These Nisei, or second generation Japanese Americans, had witnessed their fathers being beaten, the windo...
About 256 pages (76,649 words) in 7 products

The first U.S. president to be elected from the deep South in 132 years, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter (born 1924) served one term (1977-1981). In 1980 he lost his bid for re-election to Republican candidate Ronald Reagan but went on to be a m...
About 100 pages (29,898 words) in 3 products

The second president of the United States, John Adams (1735-1826) played a major role in the colonial movement toward independence. He wrote the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 and served as a diplomatic representative of Congress in th...
About 616 pages (184,864 words) in 20 products

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world. John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy....
About 155 pages (46,576 words) in 11 products

John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886) was the founder of the Oneida Community, one of the notable experimental societies of his century. John Humphrey Noyes, born on Sept. 3, 1811, in Brattleboro, Vt., was raised in an individualistic family by ...
About 94 pages (28,110 words) in 3 products

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the sixth president of the United States. A brilliant statesman and outstanding secretary of state, he played a major role in formulating the basic principles of American foreign policy. Born in Braintree ...
About 69 pages (20,659 words) in 5 products

John Tyler (1790-1862), tenth president of the United States, was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency. His administration was marked by great conflict over the Texas question. John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790, at Gre...
About 55 pages (16,605 words) in 2 products
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