History Site
	Cindy Kessler BellaOnline's History Editor

03. The Third President - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, author of perhaps the most important document in American history--the Declaration of Independence, served as the third president of the United States.

Abraham Lincoln and Poetry
Abraham Lincoln loved poetry, and he even wrote some poems. How fitting that a poetry-loving president should be the subject of so many poems.

The First President - George Washington
This article begins a series on the presidents of the United States of America. George Washington was not only the first president; he was also the first hero.

The Second President - John Adams
John Adams, the second president of the United States, was one of the founding members of our government. He served only one term, but his influence has been great in forming our style of democratic government.

The Thirty-Eighth President – Gerald R. Ford
The current president offers a tribute to a former president: "For a nation that needed healing, and for an office that needed a calm and steady hand, Gerald Ford came along when we needed him most." Gerald Ford, R.I.P.

Two Actors Brought Down the Curtain on Communism
An American actor who became a president and a Polish actor who became a pope are now recognized as the two world leaders most responsible for bringing down the USSR as a communist superpower and thus the demise of communism in Eastern Europe.