US Presidents 6–10: John Quincy Adams to John Tyler
Explore US presidents 6–10, from John Quincy Adams to John Tyler, with their political parties, achievements, controversies and the crises that shaped America.
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The First Five US Presidents: Washington to Monroe
Meet the first five US presidents, from George Washington to James Monroe, with their political parties, achievements, challenges and lasting legacies.
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Abraham Lincoln: From His Early Life to His Death
Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he became a lawyer, a husband and father, and the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and helped turn the struggle to preserve…
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Almanzo Wilder: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Husband
Almanzo Wilder is often introduced as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband. Yet his own life stretched from a farm in northern New York to a homestead in Dakota Territory and, finally, a lasting home in the Missouri Ozarks. He was a farmer and father whose childhood memories became Farmer Boy, and whose adult years included illness,…
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Martin Luther King Jr.: His Early Life, Achievements, and Death
Martin Luther King Jr. helped change the United States by making racial injustice impossible for the nation to ignore. A Baptist minister, organizer, and advocate of nonviolent resistance, he became the most widely recognized leader of the modern American civil rights movement. His work helped build pressure for major changes in segregation and voting law,…
