Lesson and activity looks at leadership in U.S. history focussing on presidents, past and present, to determine what makes a good leader. Questions for discussion and class activity guidelines included.

Read the speech given by President Bill Clinton in which he explains to the American public why he ordered the U.S. Armed Forces to join NATO in protecting Kosovo from the brutality of the Serbian troops. He gives the background behind...

Ben's Guide is a fun way to present U.S. Government to students grades K-12. This site presents a description of the election of the President of the United States.

Pictorial essay explores ten facts about Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th U.S. President.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government provides a description of the executive branch and what it is responsible for. Includes links to related information.

This website provides an in depth description of the life of President Gerald Ford, offering essays, historical information, facts and photos.

This site compiles all of the State of the Union addresses and messages by all the presidents in U.S. history (except William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield).

Insight into the private poems by President John Tyler. With quotes of his works and a link to an original transcript.

Summarizes the role of the President as the Head of the Executive Branch and the powers and duties assigned to him by the Constitution. Provides links to further information.

An easy-to-understand discussion on the actual legislative powers of the president and the veto. Includes related links.

Shannon O'Neil, Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. answers questions posed by PBS about Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's visit to the United States. The Q & A covers a range of issues from...

A bulleted list of facts about the US Embassy bombing in Beirut. Also contains good before and after photos of the Embassy, as well as links to photos of President and Mrs. Reagan honoring the victims.

Billy Graham's unprecedented access to U.S. presidents ushered in a new era of evangelical influence in American politics.

Find interesting facts on the Lincoln Memorial located in Washington, DC which honors president Abraham Lincoln.

This site from the Library of Congress provides a concise biography of the first vice-president of Abraham Lincoln. Learn about his upbringing, his vice-presidency, and his political career after that.

This site provides an interactive biography of former President John Adams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

This Colonial Hall site gives a great outlined biographical site of former U.S. president, John Adams.

This archive from Vanderbilt University contains an "extensive and complete" collection of television news broadcasts. "The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national...

Find out who is involved in the Executive Branch of the Government, and what the duties of those positions are.

This article explains the United States v Korematsu (The Japanese-American Exclusion Case)during WWW II Japanese-Americans were subject to relocation camps. It also includes a video with Korematsu.

The New York Times Learning Network presents an online & printable crossword puzzle on the American Presidents.

An account of the events leading up to the Washington meeting between President Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan in May 2010. A top issue for discussion will be President Obama's deadline of July 2011 to start withdrawing...

United States' President Barack Obama emphatically shares his concern and vision of the American education systems to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. March 10, 2009.

For this lesson, for grades 7-12, students will examine President Obama's proposed policy on offshore drilling, the various positions on offshore oil exploration and participate in a mock-policy committee to develop policies for offshore...