Thoughts on the vice presidency: ___ "You're not going to take it, are you?" — Grace Coolidge to her husband, Calvin, after he was nominated for vice president in 1920. "I suppose I'll have to." — Coolidge's reply. He became president upon Warren Harding ...

'As in England, in America the organ is King, ' wrote the French organ-composer Louis Vierne in 1927, following a phenomenally successful three-month tour of America and Canada. His 50 recitals had drawn in around 70,000 obsessed fans, including some 6,000 at the Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia alone, home to the world's largest organ. There was ...

Have you ever thought about bringing an 8-foot-tall burning torch to a Barack Obama political rally? What about drinking John McCain-brand juice? Those gestures may sound creepy today, but burning torches were one of the first examples of American campaign memorabilia in the 1800s. And presidential nominees in ...