Chuck King calls the Skokos Performing Arts Center the “crown jewel of downtown Alma.” Seating 1,500, the theater will be celebrating its 25th year of operation in 2027.

Biddle was also the perfect embodiment of the nation’s monied class. He viewed “men with no property to assess and no character to lose” as social inferiors — so it was no surprise that he would ...

By tweeting his plan to boycott Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump violated a 150-year precedent. Only five other presidents in history—including John Adams and Andrew ...

Martin Van Buren (1837–41) Van Buren is perhaps the closest we have to a cipher among the Democratic presidents, with less good and bad to his name than the incomplete term of John F. Kennedy.

Van Buren tried again in 1844 and 1848 — this time as a third-party Free Soil candidate opposing slavery and essentially repudiating the Democratic Party he founded — but failed both times.

The eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was not present for William Henry Harrison's 1841 inauguration. Van Buren's absence is still unknown, despite several reports claiming the two had friendly ties ...

Martin Van Buren, seen in this painting, was the 8th President of the United States from March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1841. (AP Photo) Our Founding Fathers, who disagreed on so much, were of one mind ...

Martin Van Buren in 1860. ... With Andrew Jackson, he co-founded the Democratic Party in 1828, cannily banking on Jackson’s personal appeal to win that year’s election; ...

Why Martin Van Buren Was In a “Seinfeld” Episode and 5 Other Things Nobody Knew About Our 8th President. Liz McNeil. ... "He practically founded the Democratic Party, ...

Van Buren rose quickly and emerged as the organizing genius of New York state’s dominant political machine—the nucleus for what became the national Democratic Party.