President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson ...

On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... Reactions to the “Corrupt Bargain” led the House to nominate Jackson for presidency in 1825, three years before the 1828 election. During the election, Jackson was ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched ... of New Orleans and became very famous and ran for president." Rachel Jackson had been married before, to Lewis Robards. The marriage was an unhappy one ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.

Although Jackson won more electoral and popular votes than any of his opponents in 1824, his lack of a majority gave the House of Representatives the power to choose a president. Frustrated by ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...

Others suspected Jackson’s former vice president, John C. Calhoun, who had defected to Jackson’s political opponents and who days before the attempt had said that Jackson was “a Caesar who ...