PRESIDENTS

Some American presidents have their faces on currency, some get memorialized in films and miniseries and sketches. Then there are the others, whose all-but-forgotten names are unceremoniously attached to middle schools and parks across the country. The 19

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.

He was a fashionable dude, for one.

2. He was the first American-born president.

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

I know I’m not the only one mesmerized by this phenomenally random photo of the retired 37th President of the United States palling around with The Future Of Law Enforcement.

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.

Vaughn Meader skyrocketed to stardom with his impersonation of John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s, even winning a Grammy. But it all came crashing down the day the President was assassinated.

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.