A new book by James M. Bradley sheds new light on the obscure politician. Here are some fun facts you probably missed ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew ... panic as citizens rushed to exchange their state-issued paper money for hard currency. The state banks had depleted their own reserves ...

But a new biography, Martin Van Buren: America’s First ... A man of humble origins, Van Buren was unabashed about spending money on luxury items and clothes. In his grand mansion in upstate ...

Though President Andrew Jackson gave the period its name, the most talented practitioner of the new art of popular politics was Jackson’s diminutive successor, Martin Van Buren. According to ...