Visiting the Presidents

Mar 11 2025 143 ep. 40 mins 62
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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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S3 E19 Rutherford Hayes' Tomb

Mar 11 2025 46 mins  
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

BONUS! Interview with Presidential Visitor Louis Picone!

Mar 04 2025 52 mins  
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.co

S3 E18 Ulysses Grant's Tomb

Feb 18 2025 54 mins  
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

S3 E17 Andrew Johnson's Tomb

Feb 04 2025 42 mins  
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 VisitingthePresi

S3 E16 Abraham Lincoln's Tomb

Jan 21 2025 62 mins  
"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 epis

BONUS! How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels 2024, Part 3!

Dec 18 2024 26 mins  
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 P

BONUS! How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels 2024, Part 2!

Nov 26 2024 42 mins  
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 M

BONUS! How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels 2024, Part 1!

Nov 06 2024 30 mins  
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 Bloomi

S3 E15 James Buchanan's Tomb

Oct 22 2024 45 mins  
"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 oth

S3 E14 Franklin Pierce's Tomb

Oct 08 2024 48 mins  
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 Pag