When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington to be sworn in as a senator in 1821, he told a friend he planned to “build up a party” for himself. It was an odd time to be party-mongering ...

“The way to go nuts,” Bhakta said, “is to buy a college campus in the middle of nowhere and then figure out all the ... That’s what Martin Van Buren III worries about with Green Mountain.

Tóth’s wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) turns out to be a journalist (she studied English at Oxford), but the women in the film stand apart from the main action. The character of Van Buren’s daughter ...

Martin Van Buren (1837–41 ... him reelection was largely the doing of his predecessor. While Van Buren is a very important figure in American political history, ... Doubling the tariff on ...

OK, Martin Van Buren was never initialized. But you are far from alone if you know nothing about our eighth president. Advertisement Article continues below this ad In 2014, Time magazine named ...

Jackson’s new secretary of state was Martin Van Buren, who was from New York state ... that Trump sees himself as this kind of Jacksonian figure, to the extent that he thinks about it.

Martin Van Buren was, like Mike Pence ... He was in many ways a smaller-than-life figure, but he harbored larger-than-life ambitions. This dual reality was to shape his presidency, bringing ...

Our Founding Fathers, who disagreed on so much, were of one mind on the subject of political parties. In his “Farewell Address,” written at the end of his 20 years of public life, George ...

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 ...

Bradley, author of “Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician” and presidential historian and New York Times bestselling author Alexis Coe at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11. The event will ...

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 ...