"Little magician" was overshadowed by Andrew Jackson, but he was important in American politics ... helping create this political madness: Martin Van Buren. While not a name that leaps to mind ...

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.

Having reached his seventy-first year, and while in a foreign land, Martin Van Buren undertakes to review ... and reactions. Behind his words of praise and between the lines of his narrative ...

In New York's Hudson Valley, in the village of Kinderhook, sits a lovely estate called Lindenwald, once home to Martin Van Buren. And if you don't know who that is, you're in good company!

(Come back to us, Martin Van Buren!) Bringing this project into Tennessee in many ways makes the state a one-stop shop for all your Early History of the Democratic Party needs and an important ...

Ex-President MARTIN VAN BUREN ... position on the important questions which were brought before that body. Soon after the adjournment of the Convention, Mr. VAN BUREN went to Washington to assume ...

To win the presidential election, Democrat Kamala Harris will have to overcome what was once called the “Van Buren jinx.” In 1836, Vice President Martin Van Buren won the presidential election ...

Ted Widmer, former adviser to President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, talked about the panic of 1837 and President Martin Van Buren. Ted Widmer, former adviser to President ...

Though President Andrew Jackson gave the period its name, the most talented practitioner of the new art of popular politics was Jackson’s diminutive successor, Martin Van Buren. According to ...