PRESIDENTS

After what should have been the happiest day of his life, a grieving Teddy turned his back on his burgeoning political career—and abandoned his newborn daughter.

What's revealed about some of America’s presidents in 'Under This Roof' is nothing next to the wild history of the building itself.

Some American presidents have their faces on currency, some get memorialized in film and literature. Then there are the others, whose all-but-forgotten names are unceremoniously attached to middle schools and parks across the country—or removed from major

2. He was the first American-born president.

“For Washington,” writes Edward Larson in The Return of George Washington, “retirement made sense.”

A few things you might not know about these stately handwriting masters.

If not for a doctor uncle, Herbert Hoover might not have lived past age 2.

The Adamses set the tone for generations of American political celebrity pairs to come.

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, people in the U.S. eat more than 7 billion hot dogs. In 1939, that included the Roosevelts and their guests, the King and Queen of England.

Ten revealing true stories of how our nation’s greatest romantics in chief put a ring on it.

The failed lawyer, newspaperman, and evangelist—enraged that the president’s advisors had refused him an ambassadorship he believed he deserved—had been stalking Garfield for months, intent on killing him.

Though he was in office less than a year, Garfield's grave is one of the most elaborate presidential monuments ever built.