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

Thomas Jefferson, who, as vice president, had presided as the 30-year-old Sen. Jackson exploded in fury, called him “a dangerous man” and told visitors to Monticello years later that he was ...

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

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made ... Not coincidentally, he was able to purge anyone who supported his hated vice president, John Calhoun. Britain and France both tried to keep the ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded Van Buren with cabinet positions and the vice presidency. As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian ...