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Visiting the Presidents takes listeners through the birthplaces, homes, gravesites, libraries, and other historical sites associated with the Presidents of the United States. Join Dr. Joe Faykosh as we explore the childhoods, lives, loves, careers, and deaths of these presidents through the sites that were touched by them.
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"Please put out the light, James." The last words of a larger-than-life leader, Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, whose time after the White House was also full of adventure and excitement. Learn about his action-filled post-Presidency, his illnesses, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/09/09/seaso...
"It is God's will, not ours." William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, died after a week of suffering from an assassin's bullet, our third President killed in office. Learn about his brief second term, his shooting and death, funeral, and tomb in Canton! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/08/26/season-3-episode-25-william-m...
We are back for more! More questions and more answers about Presidents, their sites, and all of the fun along the way! Be sure to check out Part I, but here we will answer: What crimes have occurred at Presidential sites? Which President had the worst hygiene? Which President threw the best parties? Which President needs MORE statues? What Presidential legacies have improved over time, and why? What sites would get donations from me if I struck it rich? What is my "white whale" for Pres...
Who says you can't have a second chance? Grover Cleveland did, since joined by Donald Trump, as our only Presidents to serve non-consecutive terms! We won’t do his gravesite in Princeton Cemetery over…Check out Episode 22, "Grover Cleveland's Tomb" for that info! Instead, Episode 24 is a Question and Answer with questions submitted by listeners of the “Visiting the Presidents” podcast! Among the Questions Answered: Should we re-Visit the no-third term rule? How do Presidents...
"Are the doctors here?" With those words, the second President Harrison died. Learn about the difficult end of Benjamin Harrison's Presidency, his second marriage, his failing health, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Indianapolis! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/05/20/season-3-episode-23-benjamin-harrisons-tomb/ ...
"I have tried so hard to do right." Thus ended the extraordinary rise and unprecedented life of Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Nobody had ever served in two non-consecutive terms before, and Cleveland experienced the hard way how harsh things could be during a financial collapse. Learn about the difficult end of his second term, his more joyful post-Presidency, his failing health, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Princeton Cemetery! Check o...
Few Presidents had as breezy a time getting to the Executive Mansion, and as horrible a time once he arrived than Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the United States. Learn about his difficult Presidency, his failing health, brief post-Presidency, death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Albany Rural Cemetery! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthep...
Few Presidents had more potential than James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, and nobody was tortured more in the lead-up to his death. Learn about Rutherford's assassination, his shooting, grisly death, and burial, as well as his gravesite in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/03/25/season-3-ep...
Rutherford Hayes' life naturally led to the Presidency...what he did with that office might not have represented that, but he was always capable and upright. Learn about Rutherford's post-Presidency, his activism, his death, and burial, as well as his gravesite! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/03/11/season-3-episode-19-rutherford-hayes-tom...
A Visiting the Presidents Bonus! When it comes to Presidential sites, especially birthplaces and gravesites, Louis Picone wrote the book on them...Literally! Join me for a talk with Louis, author of "Where the Presidents Were Born," "The President is Dead!" and "Grant's Tomb," and his ideas about Presidential sites, historical commemorations, and much more! Check out LouisPicone.com Louis, his scholarship, and more! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual ai...
What a rise to the Presidency! What a wild post-Presidency! Few Presidents had a quicker rise to power, and a shocking, tragic demise than Ulysses Grant, 18th President of the United States. Learn about Grant's post-Presidency, including his world tour, his tragic illness and death, burial, and legacy! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/02/18...
Few Presidents had as many lives as Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, serving in every elected position possible from Tennessee, treated as loyal hero and hated traitor, our first impeached President, and our only to return to the Senate after his term! Learn about Johnson's post-Presidency, his death, burial, and legacy! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: Seas...
"She won't think anything about it," Abraham Lincoln's last words. Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was our first assassinated President, and his funeral and burial both had their own adventures (and misadventures)! Learn about Lincoln's final weeks, his murder, burial, and legacy! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2025/01/21/se...
BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break. The third and final leg: join me as I visit Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas! Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2024, Part 1"! Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2024, Part 2"! Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned: Birthplaces "Thomas Jefferson and Sh...
BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break. The second of three trips: join me as I visit upstate New York, the Hamptons, Manhattan, Washington DC, and more! Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2024, Part 1"! Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned: Birthplaces "Martin Van Buren and Kinderhook" "Theodore Roosevelt and Manhattan" "Franklin Roosevelt...
BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break. The first of three trips, join me as I visit Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio! Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned: Birthplaces "Rutherford Hayes and Delaware (OH)" "Warren Harding and Blooming Grove" "Herbert Hoover and West Branch" "Dwight Eisenhower and Denison" "Ronald Reagan and Tampico" Ho...
"Oh, Lord God Almighty, as thou wilt!" The final words of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, and today regarded as one of the worst. Learn about the end to Buchanan's Presidency, his lonely years after, his death, burial, and other commemorations! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2024/10/22/season-3-episode-15-james-buchanans-...
Enigmatic to the end, our 14th President, Franklin Pierce, passed away without family present and no last words recorded. Learn about the end of Pierce's Presidency, his tragic post-Presidency, his death, burial, commemorations, and more! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2024/10/08/season-3-episode-14-franklin-pierces-tomb/ Season 1's Franklin ...
"The nourishment is palatable," the last words of our oft-forgotten 13th President, Millard Fillmore. Learn about the end of Fillmore's Presidency, his active post-Presidency, including his run at the office again, his death, burial, commemorations, and more! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information! Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2024/09/24/season-3-episode-13-millard-fillmores-tomb...
"I have tried to discharge my duties faithfully. I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.” The 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor was also our second to die in office; like his predecessor, his body will be moved three different times, and even exhumed! Learn about his brief Presidency; his illness and death; his funeral, burial, and commemorations, plus his multiple moves! Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links...
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I heard TR´s mother was the inspiration for Scarlett O'Hara.
@13:50 Too bad. I was having visions of BH and WIlliam Wallace screaming "Freedom" LOL.
@38:18. That's so strange because Frank Lloyd Wright's original middle name was Lincoln. He changed it to Lloyd later on because he thought it sounded better.