Political Autobiography As a child, I was exposed to a very meager lifestyle. My father was a college student through the years of my early childhood (1982-1989), and my mother juggled two jobs while taking care of my older sister and myself while helping put my father through college. We lived ...

"A little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard." So said Congressman Abraham Lincoln about Alexander Hamilton Stephens.1 Stephens was born near Crawfordsville, Georgia on February 11, 1812. His mother died shortly a...

By the time of the 1860 presidential election, the country was in a state of turmoil. There were profound differences in the views of citizens over the future of our nation. Many of these differences were strictly based along sectional lines. The division between North and South had never been so...

This paper will prove Richard M. Nixon wasn't such a bad president at all or at least better than some presidents. Richard Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States and was the only president to resign from office. Nixon was a follower of Quakerism and he was president during...