President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the first Democratic National ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

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

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched ... the 2016 presidential campaign as Democrats cast off Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from state party fundraising dinners in search of less controversial ...

Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the history of presidential portraiture, reflecting his stature as a military hero and an authoritative leader. Caricaturists ...

In 1836 they threw their support behind Andrew Jackson's successor ... Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing anti-slavery movement. It had been born in 1839, when ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United ... The donkey first became associated with the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson's presidential campaign in 1828.

By the early 19th century, rivalries among political factions in the new government ... With the realization of an in-and-out party system in the era of Andrew Jackson, advocacy replaced commemoration ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times "the Jacksonian era." ...