Portraits of American Presidents, Part II

In the second of a series of three films, the focus is on the presidents who held office during the years leading up to a bitter division, those who endured the tragic consequences of that struggle, and the men who guided the country during the period of healing and the years that followed. Portraits of American Presidents: Presidents of a National Struggle, 1829-1901 chronicles the administrations of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and more.