Leaders no strangers to slavery

Understanding our history is one path to understanding ourselves. That's why we have Black History Month and Presidents Day, which actually go well together.

For 50 of the first 60 years of the United States, the presidency was held by men who owned other people, more specifically, white men who owned black people. Their thoughts and actions shaped the country we inherited.

I went digging around for more information and unearthed Robert Lopresti. He's a librarian at Western Washington University and creator of a website titled simply, "Which U.S. Presidents Owned Slaves."