While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not the United States’ initial president. Before the Mount Vernon ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of the 10th U.S. President John Tyler, has died aged 96. Tyler died on May 25 ...

At once chief executive, head of state, commander-in-chief, and leader of a political party, the President of the United States is also a prominent cultural figure, and a bellwether of the society ...