Despite his farm upbringing, Coolidge fought farm relief legislation that might have saved American farms when the depression followed the stock market crash in 1929. Still Calvin Coolidge, a man with ...

What do you know about our nation’s 30th president? Pay a visit to Plymouth Notch, Vermont, home to one of the best-preserved presidential birthplaces in America, to find out. This tiny village, ...

What better day for a president of the United States to be born than the Fourth of Jul. Yet only one was so lucky: Vermont's own Calvin Coolidge, born in Plymouth Notch on that day in 1872. On Monday, ...

PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren Harding unexpectedly fell ill and died while visiting San Francisco. Five hours later, America had a new president: Calvin Coolidge, a man ...

“The Swearing In of Calvin Coolidge by His Father,” by Arthur Keller Credit: Courtesy of Library of Congress Hundreds of people are expected in Plymouth Notch next week for a four-day centennial ...

Vermont's historic sites are opening for the season, beginning with Bennington Battlefield Monument on May 16. The sites will feature events and exhibits commemorating the American Revolution and ...

A newspaper clipping shows a security fence erected to separate the crowd of people waiting to meet President Coolidge and his wife, Grace, from the family homestead. Photo via Coolidge Presidential ...

Calvin Coolidge was in bed, asleep, when he became president of the United States 100 years ago next week. He was visiting the simple homestead where he had been reared in Plymouth Notch, Vermont: a ...