A new biography suggests that the eighth U.S. president, who was born in Kinderhook, deserves to be remembered — though not ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

After winning the 2024 presidential election against Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald Trump ... John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Johnson. Trump was the first to do so in over ...

Presidents Day — the third Monday in February — originally was linked to the the birthday of George Washington, our nation's ...

Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun. It wasn’t just an ideological difference; it was that neither of them had been early Jackson men. Surrounded by a few favorites Jackson, the president who made no ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge ... Jackson’s new secretary of state was Martin Van Buren, who was from New York state. And Van Buren knew the ...

Day 1 executive actions: President Donald Trump has signed a ... missed their successors’ scheduled swearing in, Martin Van Buren and Woodrow Wilson. The reason for Van Buren’s absence is ...

Only one president, Grover Cleveland, has previously served nonconsecutive terms in the White House. Others, including Martin Van Buren, tried and failed to return to the White House. But the meeting ...