The winds began to blow in the spring and summer of 1929. Nobody took much notice. The stock market soared from peak to peak, and President Hoover foresaw a final triumph over poverty. But two storms, one environmental, one financial, were about to break over America-- with horrific consequences.

The "noble cause" of Vietnam was the longest war in America's history, the most unpopular war, and the first modern war America lost. Vietnam ended the belief that America had a duty to fight everywhere abroad for freedom.

The amazing adventure that is the American century begins-- and what an adventure it is! The Land Rush sweeps thousands of settlers into the Great Plains, devouring Indian land…

A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later.

Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history.

The eternal conundrum about James Madison - a key framer of the U.S. Constitution...

Robert V. Remini, offers us a fascinating portrait of a brilliant and complex man, and of a truly influential American life.

If Rutherford B. Hayes's significance as chief executive had faded in the public memory, nothing brought it back into our consciousness more than the similarities between the controversial elections of 1876 and 2000.

The American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adventurer, Theodore Roosevelt...