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Trash-Talking America

William E. White | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Read More: Citizenship, American Revolution, History Education, Alexander Hamilton, Thirteenth Amendment, Charles Sumner, Violence, Andrew Jackson, Fifteenth Amendment, Immigration, Franklin Roosevelt, Enlightenment, Woodrow Wilson, Civic Education, Partisan Politics, Declaration of Independence, Aaron Burr, Roger Griswold, Matthew Lyon, Dysfunctional Government, Constitution, George Washington, American History, Federal Government, Andrew Johnson, John Adams, League of Nations, Presidential Power, Jim Crow Laws, Fourteenth Amendment, Politics News
William E. White

If we ever hope to sponsor a productive debate in this country, we will have to spend as much time listening as we do talking. Grandstanding, posturing, and trash-talking the country is not helping.

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For Your Edification: Presidents Who Had Pet Rats, A Slideshow

Posted 11.21.2012 | College
Read More: Andrew Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt Rat, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Johnson Mice, College News

Have you ever wondered which president had a pet rat? Are you surprised that more than one president had a pet rat? We are too! Without further ad...

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WATCH: China's 'Ghost Cities'

Bloomberg | Andrew Johnson | Posted 07.17.2011 | Business
Read More: Bloomberg, Kangbashi, Jim Chanos, Housing Market, Kynikos, Bubble Burst, Andrew Johnson, Ghost Citiies, Real Estate, China Economy, Business News

So many new high-rise urban centers have sprouted across China in recent years that you can almost hear the bubble popping. Kangbashi, a city in I...

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Before Chickamauga

Carolyn Vega | Posted 06.13.2011 | New York
Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Letters, American Civil War, The Morgan Library & Museum, Civil War Correspondence, Andrew Johnson Letter, Abraham Lincoln Letter, Andrew Johnson, New York News
Carolyn Vega

With the Battle of Chickamauga still a week away, Abraham Lincoln wrote to the military governor of occupied Tennessee, and later president, Andrew Johnson.

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Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and The Actor JFK (and Jackie) Wanted To Play Him

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 06.07.2011 | Media
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Actors, Washington, The Kennedys, Film Production, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, Hollywood, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Media News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Whether filtered by an archivist, historian, editor, screenwriter, actor or director, perspective on the life of another person is ultimately subjective - and there's no group of people more highly susceptible to the subjective than the presidents.

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''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Alexander P. Throttlebottom, 12th Amendment, Chester Alan Arthur, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson, George and Ira Gershwin, Barack Obama, Aaron Burr, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert C. Wood, John Adams, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Great Society, Millard Fillmore, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney., Barack Obama Vice President, Vice President, Suburbia, Hillary Clinton Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Barack Obama is pressured by Hillary Clinton to select her as VP, a mathematical question arises: why would he choose someone whom record numbers of Democrats have voted against?

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