How much do you know about President Martin Van Buren? Chances are, not much. The eighth president of the United States, who served from 1837 - 1841, does not usually get Mount Rushmore-level ...

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 Trump at Van Buren’s gravesite in ...

Students in the Southside Academic Challenge program listen to Greg Lewis teach a brief history lesson about former US president Martin Van Buren while he portrays the former president at Southside ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American republic began in 1789, but it took a while for leaders and voters alike to organize themselves within a national framework, a process that would transform the nature of politics. Mass ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television during a 1939 broadcast from the World's Fair.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When sultans tried to give President Martin Van Buren lavish gifts, he did what the ...