So numerous were the removals in the city of Washington that the business of the place seems paralyzed.” No, that isn’t an account of President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office. It is a ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

Describe the outcome of the “special election” and why Jackson and his supporters called it a “subversion of democracy.” ...

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem provided a brief overview of the early months of President Andrew Jackson's first term in 1829.

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune Two hundred years ago this month, President John Quincy Adams took the oath of ...

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson ... and he was the first president to use the pocket veto. In total, Jackson vetoed twelve bills. In 1836 a budget ...

Do past mistakes justify new ones? Some supporters of President Donald Trump's Administration are pointing to historical ...

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh ... to the amount of three hundred.” When Jackson was elected president in 1829, he brought 14 enslaved people—eight women and six men ...

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.

his lack of a majority gave the House of Representatives the power to choose a president. Frustrated by what he considered a stolen election, Jackson ran again and won in a landslide in 1828.

In an otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew Jackson ... in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new ...

It is a description of Andrew Jackson’s first 40 days ... office of those who had conspicuously aided the election of the new President.” Jackson set the standard for the most tumultuous ...