AP US History

In the decades before the American Civil War, when the Mississippi River was both a frontier and a lifeline, a…

Among the sailors of the great American whaling era, no figure looms larger or more haunted than Captain Ahab of…

In the turbulent landscape of the American South during the 1930s, few figures embodied moral integrity and human decency more…

Andrew Carnegie’s life reads like the blueprint of the American dream. Rising from a Scottish weaver’s cottage to become one…

Across more than seven decades of musical innovation, Quincy Jones has shaped the sound of the modern world. Composer, arranger,…

Josephine Baker was more than a glittering star of the stage. She was a cultural icon, a freedom fighter, a…

James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was born on 19 November 1831 in a small log…

Rutherford B. Hayes Biography Rutherford Birchard Hayes, the 19th President of the United States, was born on 4 October 1822…

Ulysses S. Grant Biography Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, was born on 27 April 1822…

Andrew Johnson Biography Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was born on 29 December 1808 in Raleigh,…

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was born on 12 February 1809 in a one-room log cabin…

James Bunchanan Biography James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, was born on 23 April 1791 in Cove…

Franklin Pierce Biography Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States, was born on 23 November 1804 in Hillsborough,…

Millard Fillmore Biography Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, was born on 7 January 1800 in a…

Zachary Taylor Biography Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States, was born on 24 November 1784 in Orange…

James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States, was born on 2 November 1795 in Pineville, North Carolina.…