Benjamin Harrison

This presidential database loves running and Legos

2013-05-04 16:05:00

Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and running so fast across the living room to flip onto the couch that his feet end up pointing at the ceiling. He also loves the presidents — especially 11 and 33. Arden knows all 44 U.S. presidents. In order....

City Beat: An authority on the presidents at age 5

2013-05-07 07:00:00

Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and doing flips onto the living room couch. He also loves our nation's presidents. He knows all 44 in order and can tell you something about any one of them. Arden knows a lot about the presidents because he reads a...

A stroll through history at Virginia's Berkeley Plantation

2012-09-16 00:00:00

A place of beginnings and endings, Berkeley Plantation, about halfway between Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., is part of your life. Each time you celebrate Thanksgiving, there's an echo of the first Thanksgiving held here in 1619 (pre-Pilgrim, Berkeley...

A citizen's required reading for July 4: The Declaration of Independence

2011-07-03 21:37:10

TV This Week: Nov. 7 -13

2010-11-05 16:34:52

Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels

2010-12-05 00:00:00

"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...

A citizen's required reading for July 4th: The Declaration of Independence (with music)

2010-07-04 04:37:28

Melvin Simon dies at 82; shopping center magnate

2009-09-17 00:00:00

Melvin Simon, who started what is now the country's largest shopping mall company and owned the NBA's Indiana Pacers with his brother, died Wednesday in Indianapolis, a spokesman said. He was 82. Les Morris, a spokesman for Simon Property Group, which...

Past presidents -- an inaugural quiz

2009-01-20 00:00:00

Today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president in a ceremony filled with tradition. Test your knowledge of ceremonies past. 1. Of whose inaugural speech did wordsmith H.L. Mencken say: "It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it...

The first suppers: A tradition of inaugural meals

2009-01-14 00:00:00

Barack Obama will be sworn into office on Tuesday -- just weeks before the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Obama's inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," has, fittingly, been drawn from his fellow Illinoisan's Gettysburg Address, and he's...

A presidential quiz

2008-10-19 00:00:00

The 42 men who've been president of the United States share many characteristics besides membership in one of the world's most exclusive clubs. That means, looking at them as a group, we can extract an "average president." The data can't predict who'll...

The Declaration of Independence, reloaded

2008-07-04 00:00:00

When you've spent as many hours unpacking the text of the nation's founding documents as we have, you start to notice how many concerns that were pressing when the United States was founded remain unresolved today. This is obvious with the U.S....

Lynn Hayes and son Arden read a book about President Benjamin Harrison during a visit to the Silver Lake Library.

2013-05-04 09:05:00

Several presidents have visited the Del, including Benjamin Harrison, William Taft and Bill Clinton. President Franklin Roosevelt (in the back seat at left) is shown here arriving at the hotel in 1935.

2013-02-15 15:53:30

Robert Marbury as Benjamin Harrison, in his series depicting presidents and their facial hair.

2012-07-21 14:00:09