Posted on October 13, 2009 by Bob Timmermann
President #34, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #8 It’s Been Said That People Liked This Guy When I was a kid in the 1970s, the 1950s were considered a cool time. “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” dominated television. Coming out of the turbulent 1960s (a decade glamorized in much different way from the 1950s), the 1950s [...]
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Posted on July 20, 2009 by Bob Timmermann
President #28, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #9 Take Princeton and give Fourteen Points I. Introduction Woodrow Wilson was a President so full of promise to many in America, that it seemed shocking how dismally his eight years in office ended. The United States went from being a Great Power to being the Greatest Power while he [...]
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