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| fifteenth president: Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States George Ticknor Curtis, 2024-01-24 Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. |
| fifteenth president: James Buchanan Jean H. Baker, 2004-06-07 A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even offered a seat on the Supreme Court. And yet, by every measure except his own, James Buchanan was a miserable failure as president, leaving office in disgrace. Virtually all of his intentions were thwarted by his own inability to compromise: he had been unable to resolve issues of slavery, caused his party to split-thereby ensuring the election of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln-and made the Civil War all but inevitable. Historian Jean H. Baker explains that we have rightly placed Buchanan at the end of the presidential rankings, but his poor presidency should not be an excuse to forget him. To study Buchanan is to consider the implications of weak leadership in a time of national crisis. Elegantly written, Baker's volume offers a balanced look at a crucial moment in our nation's history and explores a man who, when given the opportunity, failed to rise to the challenge. |
| fifteenth president: James Buchanan Gerry Souter, Janet Souter, 2001-08 Discusses the early life, family, political career, and contributions of the fifteenth president of the United States. |
| fifteenth president: Have Fun with the Presidents David C. King, 2007-04-20 It’s important to learn about the U.S. presidents, butit’s even better to have fun while doing it. Have Fun withthe Presidents is filled with activities, recipes, games,puzzles, profiles, quotes, and fascinating facts, about all 42American presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. You will learn all kinds of interesting things about thepresidents, their families, and the times in which they lived, butthis is much more than just a book of facts. The games andactivities in Have Fun with the Presidents will give you abetter understanding of each president’s importantcontributions, interesting hobbies, and unique personality. In Have Fun with the Presidents you will learn that Herbert Hoover and his wife spoke Chinese in the White House asa way of maintaining their privacy Dwight Eisenhower was an enthusiastic cook who loved grillingon the roof of the White House Two of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons managed to sneak a ponyinto a White House elevator so they could take it to their sickbrother’s bedroom George H.W. Bush hated broccoli so much he had it banned fromthe White House kitchen And much more! |
| fifteenth president: Lives and Portraits of the Presidents of the United States, from Washington to Grant Evert Augustus Duyckinck, 1873 |
| fifteenth president: Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents Cormac O'Brien, 2004 What your teachers never told you about the men of the white house. |
| fifteenth president: Kings without crowns; or Lives of American presidents, with a sketch of the American constitution.(Nimmo's libr. of biogr.). Charles H. Evans, 1884 |
| fifteenth president: First Lessons in Our Country's History William Swinton, 1894 |
| fifteenth president: UNITED STATES HISTORY Elijah Dunbar, 2009-07-30 This text contains everything a student needs to know about the history of the United States. Its conciseness is the author’s way of making learning as simplistic and interesting as possible to students and scholars. This concise yet detailed text on the past and present accounts of the United States includes informative appendices and significant biographical data about the Presidents of the United States and their wives. It contains the Constitutional Amendments along with the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln; a time of confrontation and emancipation, the “I Have A Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; a time of contention and determination, and the Inaugural Address of Barack Obama; a time of innovation and transformation. This nonfiction tradebook is an invaluable source of information for students, History teachers and other readers. |
| fifteenth president: The Presidents of America , 1879 |
| fifteenth president: Heroes, Villains & Dupes Paul E. Ronan, 2010-06-22 The existential question facing the antebellum presidents was how to resolve the dichotomy between the freedoms guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence and the protection of slavery established by the Constitution. This work details how each president dealt with this issue. It then ranks the presidents on the sole criterion of their ability to recognize slavery as the critical threat to national unity, and to act decisively to end the evil and peacefully preserve the Union. The book ends with the beginning of the Civil War – the result of presidents’ efforts. |
| fifteenth president: Presidents of the United States of America Frank Freidel, 1998-06 With a forward by President Bill Clinton, this volume presents the biography of each of the forty-one men who have been President of the U.S. Official White House portraits or color photos appear opposite each biography. From George Washington to William Clinton, the biographies contain information on each President's life, policies, & accomplishments & the issues that faced each administration. Presents a fascinating overview of the leaders who shaped the history of the nation from its beginnings to the present. |
| fifteenth president: Catechism of United States History Bartholomew Rivers Carroll, 1859 |
| fifteenth president: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 United States. President, James Daniel Richardson, 1897 |
| fifteenth president: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: Appendix. Index United States. President, 1897 |
| fifteenth president: American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits Frances Elizabeth Willard, 1897 |
| fifteenth president: Presidents of the United States of America Wayne Wheelwright, 2014-02-24 The United States of America is a relatively young country but already has a distinguished history and in this time has been shaped by some great men who have had to make brave and sometimes unpopular choices for the good of the country. This book has facts on the first 25 men to serve as President of the United States. Spanning from George Washington's birth in 1732 through to William McKinley's assassination in 1901. The book contains facts on the families, life before taking office, policies, political battles and the later lives of these influential leaders. |
| fifteenth president: The Road That Made America James Dodson, 2025-07 In the bestselling tradition of Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail and Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic, The Road That Made America is a lively, epic account of one of the greatest untold stories in our nation’s history—the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that 18th-century American settlers forged from Philadelphia to Georgia that expanded the country dramatically in the decades before we ventured west. Little known today, the Great Wagon Road was the primary road of frontier America: a mass migration route that stretched more than eight hundred miles from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia. It opened the Southern frontier and wilderness east of the Appalachian Mountains to America’s first settlers, and later served as the gateway for the exploration of the American West. In the mid-1700s, waves of European colonists in search of land for new homes left Pennsylvania to settle in the colonial backcountry of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. More than one hundred thousand settlers made the arduous trek, those who would become the foundational generations of the world’s first true immigrant nation. In their newly formed village squares, democracy took root and bloomed. During the Revolutionary War, the road served as the key supply line to the American resistance in the western areas of the colonies, especially in the South. Drawing on years of fieldwork and scholarship by an army of archeologists, academics, archivists, preservationists, and passionate history lovers, James Dodson sets out to follow the road’s original path from Philadelphia to Georgia. On his journey, he crosses six contiguous states and some of the most historic and hallowed landscapes of eastern America, touching many of the nation’s most sacred battlefields and burying grounds. Due to its strategic importance, military engagements were staged along the Great Wagon Road throughout North America’s three major wars, including the early days of the bloody French and Indian conflict and pivotal Revolutionary War encounters. In time, the Great Wagon Road became America’s first technology highway, as growing roadside villages and towns and cities became, in effect, the first incubators of America’s early Industrial age. The people and ideas that traveled down the road shaped the character of the fledgling nation and helped define who we are today. Dodson’s ancestors on both sides took the Great Wagon Road to Maryland and North Carolina, respectively, giving him a personal stake in uncovering the road’s buried legacy. An illuminating and entertaining first-person history, The Road That Made America restores this long-forgotten route to its rightful place in our national story. |
| fifteenth president: Dark History of the American Presidents Michael Kerrigan, 2012-10-31 Dark History of the American Presidents covers every dirty deed committed behind the White House fence, from financial profiteering and insider trading to illicit bugging of the opposition, including the terms of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. |
| fifteenth president: Complete Book of Historic Presidential Firsts Michael Duvalle, 2009-05-15 This book can serve as an important reference guide to political reporters, historians, students, elected and non-elected officials, political campaigners, game shows and trivia buffs while at the same time offer a historical profile of presidential first with fascinating tidbits and major events during the presidency of each president (first to forty-third) is in chronological order. The only vice president to serve two-full terms as President.[Jefferson] First sitting congressman to be elected president.[Garfield] First sitting senator to be elected president. [Harding] First president to die in office.[Harrison] First/only bachelor president.[Buchanan] First president to have blacks in the White House.[Lincoln] First to have telephone installed the White House.[Hayes] First/only president to be married in the White House.[Cleveland] First to install electricity in the White House.[Ben Harrison] First to create a war room in the White House, with maps.[ McKinley] First president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.[Teddy Roosevelt] First president to introduce income tax.[Wilson] First/only president to be born on the Fourth of July.[Coolidge] The first/only president to be elected four times.[F. D. Roosevelt] The last president that was not a college graduate.[Truman] First president to travel in a nuclear-powered submarine.[Eisenhower] First/only Roman Catholic president.[Kennedy] The first president to visit all fifty states.[Nixon] The longest living president.[Ford] (93 years and 165 days) The first president that was born in a hospital.[Carter] Who was the oldest president when inaugurated. [Reagan] First son of a president to be reelected.[G.W. Bush] The first and only African American president. [Obama] |
| fifteenth president: Catalogue of the Library of Parliament Canada. Library of Parliament, 1878 |
| fifteenth president: Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa, Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Harrison, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of the State...with Personal Histories of Many of the Early Settlers and Leading Families , 1889 |
| fifteenth president: A Condensed School History of the United States William Swinton, 2024-03-12 Reprint of the original, first published in 1876. |
| fifteenth president: Succeeding against Great Odds Josephine McCann Posey, 2017-06-27 Alcorn State University was founded in 1871, making it the oldest public historically black land-grant institution in the United States. Alcorn has undergone numerous changes and expansions over the years, and it continues to produce notable alumni and scholars in more than fifty fields. Succeeding against Great Odds covers nearly a quarter of a century since Josephine McCann Posey's first institutional history of Alcorn, Against Great Odds: The History of Alcorn State University. This new book briefly summarizes the first 123 years of Alcorn's history. The volume then explores the tenure of three interim and/or acting presidents, Drs. Rudolph E. Waters Sr., Malvin A. Williams Sr., and Norris A. Edney Sr. (with Edney serving twice), and permanent presidents, Drs. Clinton Bristow Jr., George E. Ross, M. Christopher Brown II, and Alfred Rankins Jr., who have all served since Against Great Odds was published in 1994. This comprehensive narrative shows the university confidently advancing in the twenty-first century, proud of its distinctive heritage and intent on overcoming obstacles to continue a long tradition of excellence. Succeeding against Great Odds includes numerous appendices to document the illustrious history of Alcorn, its accomplishments, and particularly the people who have shaped the institution. |
| fifteenth president: U.S. Government, Grades 5 - 8 Wheeler, 2014-12-01 A top-selling teacher resource line, The 100+ Series(TM) features over 100 reproducible activities in each book! The engaging activities found in U.S. Government have been updated to include Barack Obama and help your students to better understand the government under which they live. The first section focuses on understanding and examining the Constitution and the Amendments. The book also includes 4 cards (0.5 x 4.5 each) which highlight each president that students are able to use in a variety of ways to learn more about our presidents. |
| fifteenth president: The Health of the Presidents John R. Bumgarner, M.D., 2024-10-11 Surrounded by well-meaning aides, physicians sworn to confidentiality, and in some cases, sycophants, the president of the United States usually keeps the state of his health well-guarded from the American public. Though the intention of the 25th Amendment is to provide for the removal of an impaired president, the level of discretion involved in such a decision has caused many to question whether it serves the national interest. In large part, the men who have served as president have been past middle age and susceptible to the dame maladies as the rest of the aged population. The complete medical history of each of the first 41 U.S. presidents, emphasizing illnesses that affected them during their administrations, is here set out for the lay reader by a physician. The presidents' health care regimens (diet, exercise, home remedies, etc.) and physicians' treatments are also discussed. |
| fifteenth president: Historical Manuscripts Heritage Auction Galleries (Dallas, Tex.), 2008 |
| fifteenth president: Slavery in the United States Junius P. Rodriguez, 2007-03-20 A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects—social, political, and economic—of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through Reconstruction. For 250 years, slavery was part of the fabric of American life. The institution had an enormous economic impact and was central to the wealth of the agrarian South. It had as great an impact on American culture, cementing racism and other attitudes that echo into the present. This encyclopedia is an ambitious examination of all the issues surrounding slavery: the origins, the justifications, the controversies, and the human drama. These volumes represent the work of 75 distinguished scholars from around the world. Ten thematic essays present a thorough examination of slavery and slave culture, including a rare treatment of slavery from the slave's point of view. Three hundred A–Z entries provide instant access to specific people, issues, and events. Today, slavery's immorality seems obvious. This encyclopedia provides the student or general reader with an in-depth explanation of how the practice evolved and was normalized, then anathematized and abolished. |
| fifteenth president: The Medallic History of the United States of America, 1776-1876 Joseph Florimond de Loubat, 1878 |
| fifteenth president: Picturing Victorian America Nancy Finlay, 2012-01-01 Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009) Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010) This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier & Ives printmaking firm. Editor Nancy Finlay has gathered together eight essays that explore the complexity of the relationships between artists, lithographers, and print, map, and book publishers. Presenting a complete visual overview of the Kelloggs' production between 1830 and 1880, Picturing Victorian America also provides museums, libraries, and private collectors with the information needed to document the Kellogg prints in their own collections. The first comprehensive study of the Kellogg prints, this book demands reconsideration of this Connecticut family's place in the history of American graphic and visual arts. CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway. |
| fifteenth president: A Companion to First Ladies Katherine A.S. Sibley, 2016-03-14 This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady |
| fifteenth president: THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Dr.Sheikh Aminu Bamba Al-faradhi, 2022-08-01 As a Muslim, a Ghanaian and an African, I dedicate this book to the entire Muslims of the world wherever they are, the entire Ghanaians wherever they found themselves, the entire Africans wherever they are in the world, my father Alhaji Yakubu Bamba, who passed away in 1962 in Madinah Saudi Arabia, my mother Mma Adamah who passed away in 1968, to my youngest son, Abdul-Mannan who passed away when I was deeply writing this noble book on Thursday night of 21st July, 2011 at 9:00pm after only 8 months, 5 days in this world and all my family members, the (Bamba family) wherever they may be. Hoping that they will be proud to have such a great writer in their family who did a good job for the world, which would be remembered for-ever. |
| fifteenth president: William Merritt Chase: Portraits in oil Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase, D. Frederick Baker, 2006-01-01 V. 1. This gorgeous book, the first of a four-volume definitive catalogue, features Chase's stunning paintings in pastel, which constitute a major and previously understudied body of work by the artist; monotypes; painted tiles and plates; watercolors; and prints. Reconstructing Chase's oeuvre is a daunting task, as the artist left few records of any kind, and no documentation of his individual works exists. Furthermore, Chase's paintings and pastels have been forged in great numbers throughout the years, and many of these works still surface on the art market. Making this long-awaited volume even more valuable is a list of every known exhibition of Chase's work during the artist's lifetime, selected examples of major post-1917 exhibitions, and an essay on Chase's innovative pastel technique--Jacket. |
| fifteenth president: U S Presidents Joseph Liberkowski, 2006-02-01 A guide to authenticating autographs of the American Presidents: paper, ink, forgeries, and signature examples. |
| fifteenth president: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents , 1970 |
| fifteenth president: Elementary History of the United States George Payn Quackenbos, 1873 |
| fifteenth president: From the Sidelines to the Headlines Betsy Gerhardt Pasley, 2023-03-07 In spring 2014 Peggy Kokernot Kaplan, a former Trinity University athlete and cofounder of the women’s track team, emailed her alma mater’s athletic department asking the school to post statistics from the team’s 1975 season. It’s no surprise that they couldn’t fulfill her request, for Trinity had sparse records from the 1970s—not just for track and field but for most performances by female athletes before 1991, when the school joined a NCAA Division III conference. What started as a humble email request nearly a decade ago has culminated in From the Sidelines to the Headlines: The Legacy of Women's Sports at Trinity University, an expansive book aimed at filling in the gaps in coverage of half a century of women’s intercollegiate sports. Former Trinity athlete Betsy Gerhardt Pasley and historian Doug Brackenridge, along with other members of the Trinity community, have collected hundreds of long-forgotten documents and conducted dozens of interviews with former students, coaches, and administrators to tell the fascinating, multifaceted story of women’s sports at this liberal arts school in San Antonio, Texas. While the book focuses primarily on the post–Title IX years between 1972 and 1999, its scope extends to Trinity’s founding in 1869, illuminating the century-long evolution of women in competitive sports, at Trinity and elsewhere, before Title IX. The story, told alongside the cultural shifts that formed the social and athletic context for female athletes of the day, also documents the decision Trinity and other institutions of higher learning faced after Title IX: Should they adhere to a commercial model, in which a focus on athletics often overshadowed academics, or strive for a more balanced student-athlete, nonscholarship model? Trinity chose the latter and has decades of national championships and academic accolades to show for it. |
| fifteenth president: Heritage Auctions Manuscripts Auction Catalog #6019 Sandra Palomino, 2009 |
| fifteenth president: The Fathers of American Presidents Jeff C. Young, 2024-10-11 Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians--the fathers of the presidents of the United States have come from a wide variety of professions and all walks of life. In many cases, they provided their sons and future presidents with a political philosophy that they carried to the White House. In a few instances, the politics of the son differed significantly from that of his father. This unique reference work provides biographies of both the biological and adoptive fathers of the 41 men who have served as president of the United States. Were the personalities of the father and son similar? What role did the father play in the son's upbringing? How did the father's view influence the son's? These questions and others are covered in each entry, in addition to the biographical sketches of the fathers of the presidents. |
| fifteenth president: Presidential Puzzlers Jeanne Cheyney, Arnold Cheyney, 2004-05 Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids! |
FIFTEENTH | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
FIFTEENTH definition: 1. 15th written as a word: 2. one of 15 equal parts of something 3. 15th written as a word: . Learn more.
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In music, a fifteenth or double octave, abbreviated 15 ma, is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter the wavelength or quadruple the frequency. It has also …
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The constitution as adopted limited the suffrage to adult white males, but this provision was annulled by the fifteenth amendment to the Federal constitution; and in 1880 amendments to …
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FIFTEENTH definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Yesterday's left them fifteenth in the table and their smallest crowd for six years fretting anxiously. Times, Sunday Times ( 2006 ) Here too the church has the faded remains of fourteenth - …
FIFTEENTH Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of FIFTEEN is a number that is one more than fourteen.
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Define fifteenth. fifteenth synonyms, fifteenth pronunciation, fifteenth translation, English dictionary definition of fifteenth. n. 1. The ordinal number matching the number 15 in a series. 2. One of …
fifteenth, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford …
What does the word fifteenth mean? There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word fifteenth . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
FIFTEENTH | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
FIFTEENTH definition: 1. 15th written as a word: 2. one of 15 equal parts of something 3. 15th written as a word: . Learn more.
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We partner with wealth advisors and financial planners to offer clients a streamlined, cost-effective, and enjoyable tax experience. See how Fifteenth can integrate with your offering and …
FIFTEENTH Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Fifteenth definition: next after the fourteenth; being the ordinal number for 15.. See examples of FIFTEENTH used in a sentence.
Fifteenth - Wikipedia
In music, a fifteenth or double octave, abbreviated 15 ma, is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter the wavelength or quadruple the frequency. It has also …
Fifteenth Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
The constitution as adopted limited the suffrage to adult white males, but this provision was annulled by the fifteenth amendment to the Federal constitution; and in 1880 amendments to …
Fifteenth - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
DISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word ‘fifteenth'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of …
FIFTEENTH definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Yesterday's left them fifteenth in the table and their smallest crowd for six years fretting anxiously. Times, Sunday Times ( 2006 ) Here too the church has the faded remains of fourteenth - …
FIFTEENTH Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of FIFTEEN is a number that is one more than fourteen.
Fifteenth - definition of fifteenth by The Free Dictionary
Define fifteenth. fifteenth synonyms, fifteenth pronunciation, fifteenth translation, English dictionary definition of fifteenth. n. 1. The ordinal number matching the number 15 in a series. 2. One of …
fifteenth, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford …
What does the word fifteenth mean? There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word fifteenth . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
