Presidential history: Secretaries to the presidents: The first White House gatekeepers

From informal amanuenses to institutional gatekeepers, the secretary to the president evolved alongside executive power — eventually yielding its authority to the modern White House chief of ...
Hartford Courant

History shows how presidents expand power. A look at how it’s been done for centuries.

Presidents in 1800s expand wartime and veto powers: expansions of executive power in the 1800s under Presidents Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) Introduced ...
Smithsonian Magazine

One Was a Teenage Diplomat. Another Was a Nuclear Engineer. Here’s How Eight Presidents Made Their Mark Outside of the White House

In 1876, when James A. Garfield was serving his seventh term in Congress, he devised an original proof for the Pythagorean theorem. A classics scholar who’d taught math, history, philosophy, Greek, ...
WSLS 10

Virginia’s presidents, history and fun facts for Presidents Day

Presidents Day is here, and WSLS is celebrating with fun facts about presidents who were born in Virginia. Did you know Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents, which is more than any ...