For you all you Presidential who-went-where-when obsessives, The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry/ Civil War Musings blog has a roundup on Presidential visits to the Antietam battlefield near Washington.
With the special bonus of extensively documenting future President McKinley’s participation in the battle, where he heroically shuffled coffee to the front lines under […]

OK, but why Shelly Winters?
Presidential Helpmate Barry Landau has taken his cavalcade of dubious presidential history to the Martha Stewart show.
Landau is out and about promoting his compilation of White House and other menus, The President’s Table, spinning gossamer tales […]

“In his inaugural address of March 5, 1877, President Hayes attempted to reassure the nation that change was necessary. He called for “not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.”3 The Hayes service translated this message to the president’s official table, with the nation united – if only symbolically – […]