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 ...

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

In New York's Hudson Valley, in the village of Kinderhook, sits a lovely estate called Lindenwald, once home to Martin Van Buren. And if you don't know who that is, you're in good company! Van Buren ...

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. - New York Army National Guard Maj. Gen. Michel Natali commemorated the 241st birthday of former President Martin Van Buren Dec. 5 by laying a wreath from the White House at the ...

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard Maj. Gen. Michel Natali commemorated the 241st birthday of President Martin Van Buren on Tuesday, December 5, by laying a wreath from the White House ...

From Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Montreal to Moscow, the languages may differ, but nearly every taxi driver or street vendor in the world understands one word made famous during a raucous U.S.

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 ...

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From the outset, James M. Bradley renounces any effort to rebuild Martin Van Buren’s pedestrian presidential reputation. A lackluster speaker, a vice president who never emerged out of Andrew ...