Martin Van Buren earned two nicknames during his lifetime: “the Little Magician”—he was a smooth politician—and “Old Kinderhook” from the town where he was born. “Old Kinderhook ...

I’m supposed to be Martin Van Buren.” Mom looks up his likeness on Google, then breaks out her sewing supplies, cuts up panty hose, rips apart a pillow, and before you know it, the young girl ...