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 […]

Gambling Great Harry Truman

Poker News calls the roll of Presidential poker players: Grant, Harding, both Roosevelts, Truman, Eisenhower and Nixon. They are summoning up the ghosts of gaming past to defend….online gambling!
“It’s hard to imagine that a pastime that these men, arguably considered pillars of American history, could be […]