The current presidential campaign reminded historian Jane Cook of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for U.S. president for a political party... (Read More)
The recent news reminded historian Jane Hampton Cook of another shooting of a former president while campaigning: Theodore Roosevelt, on 14 October 1912... (Read More)
An article about a juvenile hoax pulled in the House of Representatives on what was supposed to be Jeannette Rankin’s first day, 4 March 1917... (Read More)
Editorials about the shooting death of John Wilkes Booth on 26 April 1865, 12 days after Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln... (Read More)
An article about President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, on 4 March 1861, as he eloquently tried to heal divisions and avert a civil war... (Read More)
An article about the inauguration of John Kennedy as the nation’s 35th president on 20 January 1961; the youngest elected president in American history... (Read More)
An article about John Willis Menard, who on 3 November 1868 nearly became the nation’s first African American elected to Congress... (Read More)
Introduction: In this article, Jane Hampton Cook writes about the first-ever presidential debate: Nixon v. Kennedy on 26 September 1960... (Read More)
In this article, Jane Hampton Cook searches old newspapers to learn about another president stricken during a pandemic: Woodrow Wilson... (Read More)
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