James and Dolley Madison at Montpelier
My favorite stop on this year’s presidential tour was Montpelier, home of James and Dolley Madison. Located a few miles outside of Orange, Virginia along Constitution Highway, Montpelier was the […]
George Mason, Gunston Hall, and Copyright Laws
George Mason, the founding father with a REAL copyright infringement claim George Mason never made it to the White House. In fact, he never even tried. As a landed Virginia […]
Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and Museum, Staunton Virginia
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, a relatively small town 45 minutes west of Charlottesville. The future president (28th) lived in Staunton with his family – his father was […]
Jefferson, Monroe, Grant, and…..
Monticello High atop Montalto mountain sits Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s neoclassical, Palladian mansion, the centerpiece of his once 5,000-acre tobacco and mixed crop plantation. Located outside of Charlottesville, Monticello offers extensive […]
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!
Berkeley Plantation Located outside Charles City, Virginia, Berkeley Plantation dates back to the 1600s. An original settlement, named after Berkeley, England, it survived just over 2 years before settlers were […]
Henry Clay – Lexington, Kentucky
Henry Clay was perhaps the most consequential mid nineteenth-century diplomat and politician who was not a United States president. He served as Speaker of the House, Secretary of State […]
Martin Van Buren – Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren was America’s eighth POTUS, serving after Andrew Jackson’s two terms from 1837 – 1841. Van Buren was Jackson’s Secretary of State in his first administration and his […]
John Jay – Katonah, New York
John Jay was America’s first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (not a President, but he was appointed by a President, so I think it counts). At the time of […]
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Boyhood Home, Library, and Museum – Abilene, Kansas Dwight David Eisenhower was our thirty-fourth president, inaugurated on January 20, 1953, and leaving office on that same day in 1961. I […]
James Buchanan – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Last year, Richard Strauss published “Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents. It was released on October […]
Millard Filmore – East Aurora, New York
Millard Fillmore was our 13th POTUS, serving from July 1850 to March 1853. Fillmore became president upon the death of President Zachary Taylor who died after serving just over a […]
Frederick Douglas, Cedar Hill, Washington D.C.
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong,” Frederick Douglas. While not a President of the United States, Frederick Douglas was a key figure […]
Woodrow Wilson – Washington DC
Woodrow Wilson was our 28th President and served from 1913 – 1921, He was known, most notably for promoting the League of Nations at the end of the Great War […]
Theodore Roosevelt – New York
Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay Long Island Theodore Roosevelt built his home on Oyster Bay, Long Island. After losing his first wife, Roosevelt left his infant daughter with his sister and […]
John F. Kennedy – Boston, Massachusetts
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was our thirty-fifth President of the United States. He was born and raised until age three at this home in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1920, with three small […]
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – Hyde Park New York
Hyde Park, New York is the home of the Hudson Valley Roosevelts and specifically the thirty-second President of the United States. The Hudson Valley Roosevelts (of Dutch lineage) is differentiated […]