From the outset, James M. Bradley renounces any effort to rebuild Martin Van Buren’s pedestrian presidential reputation. A lackluster speaker, a vice president who never emerged out of Andrew ...

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. – New York Army National Guard Maj. Gen. Michel Natali paid tribute to the nation’s eighth president, Martin Van Buren, as he laid a wreath from President Donald J. Trump at Van Buren ...

There are presidents you know and presidents you don’t know. The Hudson Valley has produced one of each. The one you know, arguably the most important president of the 20th century, needs only three ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The first president born a U.S. citizen rather than a British subject, Martin Van Buren was known as the “Little ...

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 ...

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.