The donkey’s association with the Democratic Party traces back to Andrew Jackson’s 1828 presidential ... In his 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...

Here’s a rundown of some of the best-known sketches that have lampooned classic brands in animation like Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and more. Of note, I didn’t put any Rankin/Bass send-ups because that ...

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste.

In the abstract, all musicals are weird. People don’t just start singing at dramatic moments in real life, so the genre ...

Had lunch with some friends the other day. Conversation turned to Tommy Wayne Kramer’s over-the-top lashing of everything he could squeeze into his waste barrel of history (“Let’s do the Trump ...

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

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback in the Oval Office. “Old Hickory” – Jackson’s nickname ...

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

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

Yet, as scholars of American history well know, the roots of Biden’s rhetoric go back further still, to yet another president and another official Farewell Address: that of Andrew Jackson in 1837.