Tag Archives: U.S. Presidents

“[T]hat longing which exists in every human breast to be able to say: ‘This is mine.””

Introducing then-President Warren G. Harding’s 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week.

〜A guide on how to appease the Founding Fathers this Fourth of July〜

“They who were fathers and brothers once / Are peacefully resting here.”

〜A contemporaneous portrait of an 1860 Lincoln miniature authored by the painter himself〜

“There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars.”

〜Examining the story and text of George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation〜

Calvin Coolidge tells an interesting story about the rescue of a shipwrecked Japanese boy and the beginning of U.S.-Japan relations.

On July 4, 1888, Benjamin Harrison accepted the Republican nomination for president from his home, and then received some special guests.

〜A big league look at president birthday facts〜