A History of US Presidents and Military Leaders

Showing 70 American History videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

American presidents and generals get the documentary treatment here, with historians including Allen Guelzo, Wilfred McClay, Elizabeth Spalding, Tevi Troy, Jared Cohen, and Bill O'Reilly walking through the figures who shaped the country. The bulk of what follows profiles US presidents in near chronological sequence, from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln through Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and into the modern era with Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, examining their rise to office, major policy decisions, and lasting legacies. A parallel thread, produced around Veterans Day, explores West Point and the character of America's most influential generals, including George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur, with contributions from Bill O'Reilly and West Point's Colonel Bryan Gibby. Topics recur across entries: the Civil War and slavery's abolition, the growth of federal power under progressive presidents like Wilson and Johnson, the Cold War's major turning points, and the disputed elections and accidental successions that shaped presidential history. A PragerU tribute to Kirk himself, delivered at his memorial service, breaks from the historical format to honor the site's own namesake. Overall, this offers a structured, biography-driven education in the personalities and decisions that built the American presidency and its military tradition.