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 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

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 ...

On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to assassinate then-President Andrew ... before the attempt had said that ...

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

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 in the mid-19th century.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...