The political storms swirling around the Beijing Olympics pale in comparison to the ruckus the Americans and Brits stirred up a century ago. American athletes were outraged when they traveled to London for the 1908 Olympics and discovered that British organizers had failed to include the Stars and Stripes among the national flags flying at …
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James and Dolley Madison emerge from the shadows after a restoration team rips out the embellishments later owners made to their Virginia mansion. The president died in this room. He was feeble, nearly deaf, his fingers worthless with arthritis, his head bald, a horseshoe of gray hair dangling over his col- lar. James Madison, 85 …
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How FDR charmed the nation, rescued the banks and preserved capitalism. Cold weather still gripped most of the country on Sunday, March 12, 1933, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prepared to speak to the American people from the White House. The radio networks of the National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System had agreed to …
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Sean Wilentz brings the 40th president into historical focus and concludes he compares favorably to Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and both Roosevelts. Sean Wilentz and Ronald Reagan? The Princeton professor and the Gipper seem like a made-for-cable-news odd couple. For starters, Wilentz is best known as a scholar of early American history: He copped a Bancroft …
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Hamilton’s Mobile Home Moves Again The Grange, a turn-of-the-19th-century house Alexander Hamilton built overlooking the Hudson and Harlem rivers in New York, is on the move again. Manhattan swallowed up Hamilton’s 32-acre country estate in the decades after he was killed in 1804 in a duel with Aaron Burr, and the Grange was transported a …
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