This topical category is for articles and content that focus on U.S. history.
I examine each case in U.S. history where there were consecutive presidential elections involving a candidate running as the incumbent president.
Who wins more often in U.S. Presidentail elections: The older candidate or the younger? What if we separate out incumbent races? Let us find out…
Taking a look at the biggest age gaps in U.S. presidential election tickets between the presidential and vice presidential nominees.
Four Presidents — Hiram ULYSSES Grant, Stephen GROVER Cleveland, Thomas WOODROW Wilson, and John CALVIN Coolidge — effectively used their middle names as first names. In this article, I examine each of these interesting presidential name cases.
Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls.
Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.
We begin with a patriotic bedtime story and conclude with Benjamin Franklin’s thoughts on the bald eagle vs the turkey.
Re-printing a British officer’s account of his 1827-28 visit to Benjamin Franklin’s modest grave site.
“He is the son of our present minister to Prussia, who is a close personal friend of Senator Trumbull and myself. We are not willing for the boy to be shot…”
“You made a magnificent beginning; a grand consummation is within your easy reach. Do not let it slip.”
Where we discover that early basket ball was sometimes uncomfortably close to football.
The first basketball game was played in 1891. Let’s see some original newspaper articles about the “new” sport from 1892.