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  • Two presidents' ambitions served themselves and the nation they served

    Published February 20, 2012

    In honoring George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Americans recognize both presidents as exemplars of constructive ambition. Their ambitions were equally big -- first for themselves, and then for the nation they would lead.

  • Dolley Madison, Betsey Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln, Together at the Washington Monument

    Published July 04, 2011

    On July 4, 1848, Dolley Madison, the 80-year-old widow of President James Madison, joined 90-year-old Elizabeth Hamilton on the mall in the nation’s capital. A future president was also there: Abraham Lincoln.

  • Happy Birthday, President Lincoln -- Your Patriotism Appealed to All and Included All

    Published February 12, 2011

    The president knew that America’s future depended on its willingness to defend the Union and the freedom it represented. In response to a serenade after his reelection in November 1864, the commander-in-chief said: “Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

  • Churchill and Lincoln -- Never Give Up

    Published November 30, 2010

    What binds Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill together?

  • Jefferson May Have Drafted the Declaration of Independence But He Wasn't Happy Being Edited

    Published July 02, 2010

    Thomas Jefferson was a writer, not a speechmaker. Even his most memorable public address – his first presidential inaugural in 1801 – was delivered in barely audible tones. In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned a five-member committee to prepare the Declaration of Independence. ...

  • Washington's Farewell Address

    Published February 22, 2010

    In 1796 our first president called on the nation to avoid partisan acrimony and to maintain the union to which he had devoted his life. 

  • Washington's Farewell Address

    Published February 22, 2010

    Editor's note: Today marks the birthday of George Washington, our first nation's president. Every year on February 22, the vice president selects one senator to read Washington's farewell address aloud on the floor of the Senate. Illinois Democrat Sen. Roland Burris was chosen to read the address ...

  • The Death of George Washington

    Published December 14, 2009

    Washington’s acute sense of duty and respect for friends and family did not desert him even as his life was slipping away.

  • The Death of George Washington

    Published December 14, 2009

    George Washington died on December 14, 1799. The 60-year-old former president was effectively asphyxiated over a two-day period. “I die hard,” said Washington before he passed away. It was indeed a hard and painful death which Washington met with his usual stoicism. Historian Peter R. Henriques ...

  • Teddy Roosevelt -- Bull Moose

    Published October 10, 2009

    A look at the first American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize.