Much like President Andrew Jackson, President Donald Trump was condemned by his predecessors. But both men exerted huge ...

In some circumstances, a president’s official Farewell Address to the Nation may be an occasion for sunny reflection.

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee. At the time of his presidency, from 1829 to 1837, Jackson enslaved 95 ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

The Trump presidency is not a pathology of mass politics. It’s a problem of our billionaire political economy.

He also notes that reformers in Philadelphia often disagreed on solutions. 61. Quoted in Robert Remini, The Election of Andrew Jackson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1963), 105. 62. David A. Wilson, ...

Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 Sonja Anderson An estimated 28 probable graves were identified at the ...