For years I thought that Hannah Hoes (1783–1819), wife of the eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was from Greene County. The reason: the New York State historical marker in front ...

Martin Van Buren won the White House in 1836 by defeating William Henry Harrison to become the seventh President of the ...

There are presidents you know and presidents you don’t know. The Hudson Valley has produced one of each. The one you know, arguably the most important president of the 20th century, needs only three ...

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,” abbreviated to O.K., ...