John Quincy Adams was well known for his diplomatic success and most of all for his role as secretary of state under James Monroe. Adams had previously served as an ambassador to several European countries and as a U.S. senator from Massach
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Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837), was the first to come from poverty. The youngest of three sons of Scotch-Irish immigrants, he grew up in rural South Carolina and attended local schools before leaving
Continue reading >>When Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965 at the foot of the Statue of Liberty on October 3 of that year, he stressed the law's symbolic importance
Continue reading >>Until Clarence Earl Gideon mailed his envelope to the United Sates Supreme Court, there was nothing about him to suggest that he would become a celebrated symbol of fairness in American justice.
Continue reading >>It didn't start as a plan, and some of the veterans said it never did become a plan. Its own second-in-command, Harlan Cleveland, called it "a series of improvisations ... a continuous international happening
Continue reading >>The GI Bill of Rights, officially known as The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was signed into law on June 22, 1944, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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