President of the United States

Welcome to a Learning Project on the Presidents of the United States

Subject classification: this is a history resource.

Completion status: this resource is just getting off the ground. Please feel welcome to help!

Preface

This course examines the List of US Presidents and identifies simple mnemonics for placing the separate Presidential Terms into the context of US History. In sequence with the List, a separate Lesson is associated with each of the 44 Presidents. The length of time covered by a Lesson can range from less than a year to over twelve years, with one President listed twice (Do you know Who? & When?).

Within each Lesson, introductory information is broad brushed by association with major events and trends in both US History and World History. Additional categories of timelines with significant milestones would include technology, fashion, architecture, business, etc. The more advanced information would investigate Presidential Policy, as influenced by the life and times of the President and his family. The finest level of detail within a Lesson would investigate specific policies that significantly influenced major historical events. Information on these events would be provided by linking out to other Learning Projects that covered specific historical topics.

• See also in Wikipedia
  • President of the United States
  • List of Presidents
  • List of Inaugurations
  • List of Elections

Lessons

Introduction: Getting to Know the US Presidents

Let’s jump right in and get straight to the point, the purpose of this course is to learn the List of US Presidents. Let’s be equally clear that the emphasis is on learning, not memorizing. Sure, someone can certainly list from beginning to end the name and dates for every individual to have ever held the office of President of the United States, a nice parlor trick, but of what value is a list of names without the understanding of their life and times, a knowledge of the events that molded their actions, even as their decisions molded the future? Still, lists have their uses and we will be referring to many often.

A preliminary step to learning the US Presidents, is to identify a few simple mnemonics that will help provide a basic structure for the information. Then we shall examine various historical trends to place the information in context and give a recognizable presence to the individuals that have served this office.

The mnemonics are identified within short lessons that will also allow us to create our own timeline. The lessons are:

• Election Years are Leap Years
• Presidential Terms are Four Years
• Vice Presidential Succession
• Selective Memory

Unit 1: The Founders

1st President	2nd President	3rd President	4th President	5th President
George Washington 1789 - 1797	John Adams 1797 - 1801	Thomas Jefferson 1801 - 1809	James Madison 1809 - 1817	James Monroe 1817 - 1825

Unit 2: Change and Uncertainty

6th President	7th President	8th President	9th President	10th President
John Quincy Adams 1825 - 1829	Andrew Jackson 1829 - 1837	Martin Van Buren 1837 - 1841	William Henry Harrison 1841	John Tyler 1841 - 1845

Unit 3: Trouble in Dixie

11th President	12th President	13th President	14th President	15th President
James Polk 1845 - 1849	Zachary Taylor 1849 - 1850	Millard Fillmore 1850 - 1853	Franklin Pierce 1853 - 1857	James Buchanan 1857 - 1861

Unit 4: Frontlines to Frontiers

16th President	17th President	18th President	19th President	20th President	21st President	22nd President
Abraham Lincoln 1861 - 1865	Andrew Johnson 1865 - 1869	Ulysses S. Grant 1869 - 1877	Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 - 1881	James Garfield 1881	Chester Arthur 1881 - 1885	Grover Cleveland 1885 - 1889

Unit 5: Foreign Policy and Modern War

23rd President	24th President	25th President	26th President	27th President
Benjamin Harrison 1889 - 1893	Grover Cleveland (2) 1893 - 1897	William McKinley 1897 - 1901	Theodore Roosevelt 1901 - 1909	William H. Taft 1909 - 1913

28th President	29th President	30th President	31st President	32nd President	33rd President
Woodrow Wilson 1913 - 1921	Warren G. Harding 1921 - 1923	Calvin Coolidge 1923 - 1929	Herbert Hoover 1929 - 1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 - 1945	Harry S. Truman 1945 - 1953

Unit 6: A New World Power

34th President	35th President	36th President	37th President	38th President
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953 - 1961	John F. Kennedy 1961 - 1963	Lyndon B. Johnson 1963 - 1969	Richard Nixon 1969 - 1974	Gerald Ford 1974 - 1977

39th President	40th President	41st President
Jimmy Carter 1977 - 1981	Ronald Reagan 1981 - 1989	George H. W. Bush 1989 - 1993

Unit 7: The Twenty-First Century

42nd President	43rd President	44th President	45th President	46th President
Bill Clinton 1993 - 2001	George W. Bush 2001 - 2009	Barack Obama 2009 - 2017	Donald Trump 2017 - 2021	Joe Biden 2021 -

Course Administration

• Syllabus

• Worksheets

• Assignments
  • Assignment 1. TBD

• Tests and Quizzes
  • Unit Quiz 1
  • Unit Quiz 2
  • Cumulative Test
  • Unit Quiz 3
  • Unit Quiz 4
  • Cumulative Test
  • Unit Quiz 5
  • Unit Quiz 6
  • Final Exam

• Sources

The American President By:Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Presidents every question answered by Carter Smith

• Questions

Contact: [NAMLAX@hotmail.com]

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