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A July 19 symposium focuses on John Quincy Adams, the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. A desk owned by the nation's sixth ...

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Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5, 1782, the same day King George III announced hostilities with the United States were over and five days after the preliminary articles of the Treaty of Paris ...

On his face, Van Buren may seem like an intimidating character, but the more time spent with him, the more one starts to realize how small a man he actually is. In recognizing this, Pearce shared ...

In 2021, Atlanta man Michael Tropp was traveling with a friend to Plains, Georgia, where former president Jimmy Carter was born and the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park is located.

Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician by James M. Bradley Oxford University Press, 623 pp. The revolutionary generation has a way of regarding itself as the sole custodian of a nation’s ...

But a new biography, Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician, by James M. Bradley sheds new light on the obscure politician perhaps best remembered today for a running joke from a 1997 ...

Visit fdrlibrary.org to register. Bradley is co-editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, based at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Political ascent Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, New York, to a Dutch-American family. His parents were middle-class farmers, and his father also owned a tavern where ...

The tale of Rip Van Winkle, the man who famously fell asleep for years and years and awoke to a changed, unfamiliar world, is about as familiar as it gets when it comes to American folklore. Likewise ...