Three doctoral students have published a detailed article linking the university's founders and early presidents to the slave trade.

"He knew more about the early presidents than anyone I talked to - and we've hired a couple of historians over here."

He was the earliest president about whom such surveys were taken.

If that is the standard, then just about every early American president should be pilloried for conning native Americans out of their land.

Her involvement with the League included service as an early president of the state organization.

America's early presidents had tried very hard to maintain a policy of neutrality where other countries were concerned.

I am even more dumbfounded by his assertion that our early presidents did a superior job.

There may have been earlier presidents but there is no record of them, perhaps because the records were lost in the fire.

Johnston Avenue is named for an early president of the company.

The status of earlier military presidents, however, remains more uncertain.