America the land of freedom, the land where US citizens themselves choose which leaders will represent their diverse community. The leaders are chosen through elections held for positions in office. Each election depending on which party, and which candidate was chosen determine the outcome of the...

On Tuesday, November 7, millions of Americans went to the polls to place their votes for our nation's next president. Little did these men and women know that their votes would be so important in this election. The race between presidential candidates Albert Gore and George W. Bush has been ...

William Jefferson Clinton was a candidate of the democratic party. He was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. Although he was defeated in his campaign for Congress in Arkansas's Third District in 1974, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. ...

Within the last decade, the Office of the President of the United States Federal Government, part of the triad of the Executive, Legislative (US Congress) and Judicial (the Supreme Court) branches, has come under fire, due to the views of some Americans who consider the Executive branch to be far le...

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor has become a memorial to Americans all over the United States. Pearl Harbor is an inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, about 6 miles west of Honolulu, and the site of one of the principal naval bases of the United States. The government first obtained exclusive use o...

To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? America's Foreign Policy in the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century can be studied in two lig...

Originally intended to combat the stiff competition between the North and South, the Electoral College is now unnecessary and is a threat to the current system of democracy because of the possibility of a minority president being elected, "faithless" Electors who are unconcerned with the d...