The first four presidents to get sick in office include #1 George Washington, #9 William Henry Harrison, #22 Grover Cleveland and #28 Woodrow Wilson.

Friction between the US and France led to fears of foreign spies and sedition in the Adams administration resulting in the Alien and Sedition Acts, a collection of four laws.

During President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term in office he enacted drastic legislation to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression.

In 1969, an industrial-era Cuyahoga River fire in Cleveland ignited environmental activism and ultimately the birth of the EPA and environmental policy act.

In the face of racial discrimination and bigotry, 9 African American teens stood up for their civil rights to attend Little Rock Central High, a historically whites-only school.

From Native Americans to migrant workers, the history of immigration in the US includes precedent-setting policy, social pushback, the establishment of Ellis Island and continues to evolve daily.

After WWI, the US experienced a decade of decadence known as the roaring 20s. The twenties were a period of rising prosperity but also rising indebtedness, which led to the stock market crash of 1929.