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What was it like to grow up in a home where some of the most important political decisions are being made at the same time as you are trying to pass your driver's license exam? We all remember our childhood firsts, but for most of us, these quintessential memories did not take place in one of the country's most famous
"I am much at a loss how to dispose of Willey,” James Madison wrote to his father on December 8, 1779. “I can not think it would be expedient in the present state things to send him out of the State.”1 Then a member of Virginia’s Council of State, James Madison was referring to his eleven-years-younger brother, William Madison, and plans for Will
President Grover Cleveland was ill-prepared for the American sovereigns’ (as he referred to the public) fascination with his soon-to-be-bride when he formally announced their upcoming nuptials on May 28, 1886. In an era in which people obtained their news in print, occasionally with the aid of an artist’s sketch, word traveled rapidly about the unusual beauty of Frances Folsom, Cleveland’s 21-year-
