Topic: Rutherford B. Hayes

Inauguration Day Bibles: how presidents choose, and what that reveals (+ video)

President Obama will have two highly symbolic Bibles at his Inauguration Day swearing-in ceremony: one used by Abraham Lincoln and another from the family of Martin Luther King Jr.

Four curious outcomes if the Electoral College ends in a tie

Here are four ways that a 269-to-269 tie in the Electoral College could play out in the 2012 presidential election.

Chapter & Verse Election season: Remembering the strange election of 1876

During the era of Obama and Romney, historian Roy Morris Jr. looks back at the contested nineteenth-century race.

From Our Files: the unvarnished Gore Vidal (+video)

Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday, was a prolific American author, provocateur, and Renaissance man. The Monitor's Daniel B. Wood interviewed Vidal in 2006 at his art-studded home in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills. Here's the story that emerged from that Vidalian encounter.

White House Easter egg roll: President, Mrs. Obama host annual children's event

White House Easter egg roll has been around since the late 19th century. The First Family played an active role in hosting the White House Easter egg roll this year.

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Candice Millard’s account of President James Garfield’s assassination brings back to roaring life a tragic but irresistible historical period.

The (not so) secret history of the White House Easter Egg Roll

Once held on Capitol Hill, the White House Easter Egg Roll drew 30,000 to the president's South Lawn on Monday morning.

5 great books about obscure presidents

The lives of our worst presidents make surprisingly good reading.

The Last Stand

Gen. George Custer for US president? Not if Ulysses S. Grant could help it.

2009 White House Easter Egg Party – change you can roll

Obama in Europe: More DVDs for Gordon Brown?