Here's a look at his daily routine, which involved reading, writing, and occasionally racing his wife Dolley around the porch of Montpelier. James Madison accomplished a lot.

President James Madison was born 257 years ago today. And now, after a long period of relative obscurity, ... Madison left Congress to take his wife home to Montpelier.

Paul Jennings spent more than half his life as an enslaved African American servant to Founding Father James Madison and his wife, Dolley Madison, before earning his freedom and becoming a ...

One congressional wife dismissed James as a “gloomy, stiff creature . . . who has nothing engaging or even bearable in his manners – the most unsociable creature in existence.” Madison's ...

On this day in 1751, James Madison, ... D.C., and burned down the White House — but not before Madison’s wife, Dolley, safeguarded George Washington’s portrait.

With “James Madison: A Life Reconsidered,” Cheney, the wife of the former vice president and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, hopes to restore the fourth president to his ...