Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in a small town 25 miles south of Cincinnati along the Ohio River. His father was a tanner, but Ulysses was n...

For no other president, to this point, has the consensus opinion changed so drastically. As recently as the 1960s Andrew Johnson was seen a...

Had he been born half a century earlier maybe Jefferson Davis would be remembered more like his namesake, Thomas Jefferson. He had a storyb...

John Wilkes Booth was in the crowd when Abraham Lincoln delivered one the most famous speeches in American history, his second inaugural. I...

In 1809, the president who saved the Union was born in Kentucky. The first true Westerner to ascend to the nation’s highest office had a ha...

In the introduction to this blog I posed three random questions to illustrate my presidential illiteracy: “…what did James Monroe do? What ...

With nearly two feet of snow covering the ground out my window, it seemed like an appropriate time to sit down and write about our only pre...