Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author The 1806 Duel Between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson Andrew Jackson stood twenty feet ...

A July 19 symposium focuses on John Quincy Adams, the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. A desk owned by the nation's sixth ...

Trump allies insisted he respects judicial orders that his predecessors have often ignored them. From Jefferson to Nixon, ...

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Jackson’s popularity helped him win the popular vote, but not the election, in 1824. Four years later, in a hard-fought rematch, he claimed the White House. He was re-elected in 1832.

Jackson's devotion to democracy was unsurprising in one born of the people and bred in the school of hard experience. He trusted the people because he was one of them, in a way none of his ...

Andrew Jackson was not a humble man. Yet if, on his 250th birthday, he can remind us of the need for humility, he will have done his country another good service.

In an 1824 letter, Jackson wrote that he had been born in his uncle’s South Carolina home, but the exact location of the cabin is still up for debate among historians. His Parents Emigrated From ...

Jackson felt indebted to him because Eaton had run his presidential campaigns of 1824 and 1828. Eaton would become secretary of war, but he also ended up embarrassing the president.

Jackson felt indebted to him because Eaton had run his presidential campaigns of 1824 and 1828. Eaton would become secretary of war, but he also ended up embarrassing the president.

Under the same roof Jackson’s clan lived with him in the White House. There was Andrew Jackson Jr., a nephew and his adopted son. Andrew Jr. would inherit a huge fortune, but he would die in debt.

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...