On Presidents’ Day each year, it has been my wont to regret the holiday’s celebration of insipid ubiquity. Instead of ...

Sign up for our Newsletters Two former presidents have ties to South-Central Pennsylvania. The 15th president, James Buchanan ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We look now to “Old Buck” - James Buchanan. Prior to becoming the 15th president, Buchanan ...

Legacy: Generally, James Buchanan is regarded as the worst American president. Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed ...

Born: April 23, 1791, in Stony Batter, Pennsylvania... Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the Union. His faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction.

A man found beaten to death with his own revolver ... The News Tribune spoke to detective James Buchanan, an investigator in Tacoma Police Department’s cold case unit. Buchanan provided a ...

On March 4, 1857, James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th president of the United States, at the first presidential-inauguration ceremony to ever be photographed. John Wood, who worked as the ...

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States, replacing Lancaster’s James Buchanan. At noon on March 4 — inauguration day ...