Weed thought General William Henry Harrison, one of the candidates in 1836, might be the man the Whigs needed.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Unlike other presidents of the late eighteen hundreds, William McKinley spent much of his presidency dealing with foreign policy.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

This week in our series, Doug Johnson and Steve Ember continue the story of President William McKinley and the Spanish-American War.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In sixteen eighty-one, King Charles the Second of England gave William Penn a large amount of land to establish a colony.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Early in October, the governor of South Carolina, William Gist, wrote letters to the governors of other southern states.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

That became our problem." William Deng heads a commission supervising the return of ninety thousand former fighters to civilian life.

VOA: special.2011.02.24

Well,in some ways, they look like smaller versions of last month's wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William in London.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

Astronauts Frank Borman,James Lovell and William Anders were in the spacecraft at the top of the Saturn Five rocket.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

In this way, William Jennings Bryan was able to run for president at the head of two separate political parties.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

They said, are they out of porcelain? And I said 'Why,sure!'" William Wilhelmi made these boots with the slip cast method.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

In two-thousand three, American William Ruddiman first proposed that global warming resulted from human activities thousands of years ago.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

William Paddock offers his consulting services for profit, but says social responsibility is a big part of what his company does.

VOA: special.2011.06.03

So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

A businessman named William Becknell believed he could earn a lot of money by moving trade goods from Missouri to Santa Fe.

VOA: special.2009.03.30