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...

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 ...

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...

"A little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man just concludedthe very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard." Sosaid Congressman Abraham Lincoln about Alexander HamiltonStephens.1 Stephens was born near Crawfordsville, Georgiaon February 11, 1812. His mother died shortly after hisbirth and hi...