As a senator, he scoffs: “There’s not a whole lot of angels ... work, “James Madison: A Life Reconsidered”, by Lynne Cheney, a conservative scholar and wife of the former vice-president ...

Recognizing that men are not angels ... against the president that seems likely to culminate in House and Senate votes along entirely partisan lines, it may feel obvious that Madison’s hopes ...

Today marks the 250th birthday of James Madison, the fourth president. Save for George Washington ... two mutually exclusive ends: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

There are consequences for allowing the President ... are not angels. It is also true that men make up government. In my mind, the phrase that we should be quoting the most from Madison is ...

On this day in 1815, President James Madison ... During the ensuing peace talks in Ghent, Holland, John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, negotiating on behalf of the Madison administration, suggested ...

James Madison University is named eponymously to honor the fourth president of the United States, James Madison. Madison was instrumental in shaping the early American government. He was so ...

both James Madison’s Montpelier and the Montpelier Descendants Committee would be overjoyed to have the superstar bring her music to Montpelier, the home of President James Madison, the U.S ...

The research associate at Virginia Commonwealth University is taking part in a program to reconstruct the grounds of Montpelier, the former estate of President James Madison, in Virginia.

Montpelier, home of America’s fourth president, James Madison, on Dec. 5. (Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post) For most of its two decades overseeing the sprawling Virginia estate of James ...

Today, words from James Madison set by the late Milton Babbitt. As conductor Judith Clurman rounded up composers for her Mr. President project, she gave them each an assignment. She handed them ...

A few months after leaving office in 1849, President James K. Polk died at the Nashville mansion that he called Polk Place. Because the 11th president came down with a lethal bout of cholera, ...

Jimmy Carter, who served two terms as president and later won the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, his son James E. Carter III told The Washington Post. He was 100.