Andrew Jackson blamed his wife's death on the critics who hit their marriage during the 1828 campaign.

Thomas DiBacco writes that the campaign barbs this presidential year are genteel next to the 1828 election between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.

When he won election in 1828, Jackson’s efforts created a political landscape that gave him broad power, including actions that bypassed institutional checks.

President-elect Donald Trump's return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.

In an interview that aired Monday, President Trump spoke highly of Andrew Jackson, and wondered why more people don't ask why the Civil War happened, asserting Jackson could have prevented it.

On Wednesday, he traveled to Tennessee to commemorate the 250th birthday of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, and toured Jackson’s plantation, which is known as the Hermitage.

The 1828 Tariff of Abominations Author H.W. Brands talked about the 1828 "Tariff of Abomination" and the concept of nullification. He explained the beliefs of Andrew Jackson and how he viewed ...

The Tariff of Abominations was signed into law by John Quincy Adams in 1828. It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans, into ...

Author H.W. Brands talked about the 1828 "Tariff of Abomination" and the concept of nullification. He explained the beliefs of Andrew Jackson and how he viewed states' rights and secession.

Try Andrew Jackson in 1828, the year the rough-cut Tennessean was elected to the White House after a nasty campaign that spun from one personal attack to another, seemingly on much the same track ...

Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March 15. For much of that quarter-millennium, he was one of the most admired figures in American life.

U.S. President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot swore so much at his 1845 funeral that the bird had to be removed.