The Nixon-Kennedy debates would forever change the way Americans chose their Presidents.
Johnson was hesitant to take on the role of Vice President.
The 1944 Democratic Convention focused on who would be nominated for the Vice Presidency.
Follow the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900.
Andrew Carnegie built a fortune in telegraphy, railroads, and steel. And then began, systematically, to give it all away.
On Dec 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt was deeply shaken.
President Johnson took on the economy by waging a "war on poverty."
Watch a preview of Part 2 of George W. Bush.
Watch a preview of part one of George W. Bush.
President Roosevelt’s CCC put three million young men to work across America during the 1930s Great Depression.
In 1992, President HW Bush seemed increasingly out of touch.
On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed into law The Chinese Exclusion Act.
The delegations of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan met in Geneva in 1985.
This biography of Grant paints a portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
Historian Walter LaFeber comments on aspects of Theodore Roosevelt's career.
As concern over Communist aggression rose, President Truman sent troops to South Korea, stating that it was necessary for America’s security.
A biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history.
The majority of the country did not know President Roosevelt was handicapped.
George W. Bush, Part two opens with the ensuing war in Iraq and continues through President Bush’s second term.