He fled south after the war, was captured, and imprisoned. He was indicted for treason but never tried, and he was released in 1867, died in 1889.

Charged with treason but never tried. Anyone know why he wasn't tried?

Hypothetically, if he ran for President in 1868, I'm sure he'd get very little support, but was there anything in the law preventing him from hypothetically running and winning?

If you know me it's no secret that I do not like FDR, his New Deal policy, or his extremely aggressive pursual of it. But I do appreciate how much people Social Security has helped and I believe that is the core of what he wanted to do is help people with it.

Does this cross a line for you? Do you feel like we are owed this kind of interaction? Do you think it denigrates the office? I don’t really know how I feel about it. On one hand they know how hard the job is on the other is it not somewhat their duty?

My gut feeling is to stay silent to avoid interference unless it is something major.

Not trying to start a flame war and I think this can reasonably discussed entirely in a historical perspective.

Credit for art Doug Chayka

Nowadays McCarthy’s name has fallen into disfavor, with his eccentric post-60s career and behavior, and being utterly eclipsed by his former rival RFK.

However, let’s say the roles were reversed… would McCarthy be seen as a great political martyr? And would Kennedy be more astute and graceful about his death when it came to uniting the American Left?

I remember seeing Wilson was moderately average, but then around the late 2010s and 2020s is when Wilsons ranking shifted a ton because of YouTube videos shifting peoples' views

This is a question I struggle with. I simply cannot understand why the American People would choose Buchanan after Pierce. I mean the Kansas-Nebraska Act happens, it starts a mini civil war, and the people STILL chose another Democrat to lead the country when the Democrats are the ones who unleashed that debacle on the country. I just don't get it. I would have taken John Frémont rather than another Democrat or a disastrous 2nd run of Fillmore.

I've been working on a free daily puzzle called Presidential Grid.

Each day you get a 3x3 grid of categories and have to identify a U.S. president who fits each square. The goal is to complete all 9 while testing how deep your presidential knowledge actually goes.

I originally made it because I love these kinds of grid/trivia games and thought U.S. presidents were almost perfect for the format.

Would genuinely love to know what people here think - especially whether the categories are too easy or too hard.

https://gridofminds.com

ere’s the list so far:

George Washington: u/rjidhfntnr

John Adams: u/Fortunes_Faded

Thomas Jefferson: u/Feelinglucky2

James Madison: u/drawkbox

James Monroe: u/SignalRelease4562

JQA: u/elocinoi

Andrew Jackson: u/Curious-Sun5465

MVB: u/Sw33tNectar

WHH: u/BrandonLart

John Tyler: u/Pidgeotgoneformilk29

James Polk: u/Zornorph

Zachary Taylor: u/Wild-Yesterday-6666

Millard Fillmore: u/UKPoliticsNerdy

Franklin Pierce: u/Old-Equipment9631

James Buchanan: u/Drywall_Eater89

Abe: u/American_Citizen41

Andrew Johnson: u/JupiterSpeaker

US Grant: u/Bobby_The_Kidd

RB Hayes: u/YaBoiJimboMcDonalds

James Garfield: u/ancientestKnollys

Chester Arthur: u/Peacefulzealot

Grover Cleveland: u/xSiberianKhatru2

Benjamin Harrison: u/Good_Percentage8899

William McKinley: u/balfour7659

Teddy: u/FredererPower

William Howard Taft: u/MetalRetsam

Woodrow Wilson: u/DonatCotten

Warren Harding: u/expiredexecutive and u/Prestigious-Alarm-61 (will probably be the only duel winners for a category).

Cal Coolidge: u/Jolly_Job_9852

Herbert Hoover:

FDR:

Harry Truman:

Ike:

JFK:

LBJ:

Richard Nixon:

Gerald Ford:

Jimmy Carter:

Ronald Reagan:

Poppy Bush:

Bill Clinton:

Dubya:

Obama:

A few historians i know have him in the big B tier, some in High-C, some in Mid C, like me, and some even put him in Low D-F.

Where do you put him, and why? I'm curious.

My interest in Fillmore started when i first got into US presidents (2023), I love his name, it's really cool, and he has a cool hairstyle. I find him fascinating. He and James Buchanan are my favourite presidents to learn about. (Being my favourite to learn about ≠ i like them).

After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Fillmore's house was splashed with black ink, because he failed to display black mourning drapes. However, Fillmore insisted he was simply out of town, and wore a badge of mourning.

So, something i've learnt as a historian, the bad presidents are typically the most interesting, for me anyway.

It can easily confound people. Since the Andrew Jackson color is a bit more dark and the other ones are more light

Why not to use a green color for the democratic-republicans?

I am generally less aware about Presidents before the 1900s, so feel free to speak on one of those, but in my opinion, the presidents featured above seemed to be the most concerned with their personal legacy, revealed through their policies, their demeanor while in office, and their private thoughts or correspondence with others.

I find it fascinating to think of what would go through a president’s mind, particularly after the First World War, when America truly became a world power.

I often shiver at the awesome burden of occupying the most powerful office in the most powerful country in human history, and I know for myself, I’d at least be somewhat curious about how I’d be remembered after I die.

Interested to hear your thoughts (feel free to talk about a president not featured above)!!

Edit: sorry about the image resolution. The images appeared better in my camera roll before uploading them.

Pretty cool alternate history scenario where the WG break in goes in discovered, so Nixon is still in office in spring 1975.
Nixon was far less willing to be the guy who "lost Vietnam" than Ford ended up being. People like to highlight the
"decent interval" comment by Kissinger years before the fall of Saigon, but there's plenty more evidence for Nixon having been very unwilling to be the guy to lose it if he thought holding on was at all possible.
All the same aid cuts to South Vietnam still happen and the War Powers act still passes. So as South Vietnam looks ready to fall, Nixon triggers a constitutional crisis by defying congress and ordering a bombing campaign of North Vietnamese forces as the South Vietnamese forces try to pull themselves together.

William Jenner was a hardline conservative Senator from Indiana who became notorious for his vicious attacks on George Marshall.

When Truman nominated Marshall as Secretary of Defense, Jenner delivered a scathing hour long speech attacking Marshall and questioning his loyalty to America, calling him a “frontman for traitors.”

Dwight Eisenhower personally disliked Jenner. However, during his 1952 campaign, he felt he needed to appease the conservative wing of the GOP, which was distrustful of him and bitter at once again losing the nomination.

So in Indiana he endorsed Jenner for another Senate term and shared a stage with him.

This was a controversial move, with some accusing Eisenhower of turning his back on his friend, mentor and overall American hero. Truman was particularly incensed.

Washington is sometimes excluded as being apart of the label since, while he ran as an Independent, aligned more with the policies of the Federalist Party (founded by his right-hand man Alexander Hamilton), whereas the other Presidents apart of the label were Democratic-Republicans; however, since Washington was a planter just like the others, do you think he should considered as apart of the Virginia dynasty despite his views contrasting the others?

For me I always loved history, when I entered middle school it was towards the end of the Hamilton craze and a lot of people were singing the song. I just liked history so I also searched and even got a textbook they were replacing with laptops

But how did you become interested with presidents or in general us history? Do you just like history, took a apush class, etc?

Source: https://www.philipsemanorhall.com/cochran-collection