By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun ...

Andrew Jackson ... as Democrats cast off Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from state party fundraising dinners in search of less controversial standard-bearers. The Democratic Party is wrestling ...

The return of the portrait of the seventh president is a reminder of certain resemblances between the two. Jackson's demeanor ...

Inconveniently, Jackson ... by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded what is now the world’s oldest political party.

and Andrew Jackson—sought the presidency. The ensuing battles would transform politics, leading to a new democratic culture as well as to the Democratic Party. According to the 1820 census ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s. The modern Democratic Party emerged in the 1820s under the ...