Martin Van Buren won the White House in 1836 by defeating William Henry Harrison to become the seventh President of the ...

An ornate ballroom so huge it would make the White House look like an attached garage. A paved-over Rose Garden lawn. Glittering gold picture frames in the Oval Office. And a $400 million plane from ...

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From Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Montreal to Moscow, the languages may differ, but nearly every taxi driver or street vendor in the world understands one word made famous during a raucous U.S.

The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren ...

In 1839, sultan Abd al-Rahman ibn Hisham of Morocco sent a pair of lions to the US consulate in Tangier as a present for President Martin Van Buren. The gift was impossible to refuse and was shipped ...

In the latest volume of Arthur Schlesinger's American Presidents series, Widmer (Young America) paints a brief but elegant portrait of our eighth president, who, Widmer says, created the modern ...