[3/20/2018]

Rescued from Oblivion: Three Historians on America's Forgotten Presidents

Presidential Studies Quarterly book review essay by Dustin McLochlin, Ph.D., Curator, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums 

 
[4/4/2014]
The Other Leaders in the White House
A video of the 2014 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency presented by historian/author Allida Black on Feburary 16, 2014.
   

 

[2/20/2013]
Did Rutherford Hayes End Reconstruction?
Text of the 2013 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency given by Director Emeritus Thomas J. Culbertson on Feb. 17, 2013.

 

[3/11/2010]
Lincoln's Evolving Racial Attitudes
The 2010 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency welcomed Dr. Edna Medford of Howard University. Medford is a noted expert in African-American History.

 

[2/20/2008]
A Good Man is Hard to Take: Grover Cleveland - Man of Destiny
The 2008 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency presented by Mark W. Summers, Ph.D.

 

[3/27/2006]
Another Look at the Presidential Election of 1876
2006 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency featuring Michael F. Holt

 

[3/24/2006]
The Good Colonel: Rutherford B. Hayes Remembers the Civil War
2003 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency featuring historian Brooks Simpson

 

[3/24/2006]
Inaugurating a 'Most Successful Administration'
2002 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency featuring Ari Hoogenboom speaking about the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881).

 

[3/28/2006]
The View from the Front Porch: William McKinley and the Campaign of 1896
2001 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency featuring guest speaker H. Wayne Morgan.

 

[3/28/2006]
George Crook and Rutherford B. Hayes: A Friendship Forged in War
2000 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency featuring author Peter Cozzens.

 

[3/24/2006]
Who Is James K. Polk?
1999 Hayes Lecture on the Presidency featuring Robert W. Johannsen

 

[3/24/2006]
Curse of Good Times
A Feb. 10, 1997, Time Magazine article by Hugh E. Sidey compares Presidents Clinton and Hayes.

 

[3/27/2006]
Rutherford B. Hayes and African-Americans
From a lecture delivered at Spiegel Grove on October 21st, 1996. Dr. Hoogenboom is Professor of History at Brooklyn College, whose biography of Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President, was published in 1995.

 

[3/24/2006]
The Betrayal of the Freedmen? Rutherford B. Hayes and the End of Reconstruction?
The former Director of the Hayes Presidential Center discusses Reconstruction and Hayes in this 1996 article.

 

[2/20/2008]
Hayes and the Southern Question: An Interpretation
An article written by the Hayes Presidential Center staff in 1995.