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 ...

On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to assassinate then-President Andrew ... Jackson’s former vice president ...

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

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... and he felt like his career had kind of died," said Marsha Mullin, vice president of museum services and chief curator of the Hermitage.

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made ... Not coincidentally, he was able to purge anyone who supported his hated vice president, John Calhoun. Britain and France both tried to keep the ...

A former Facebook executive says that for the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, one American president stands head and shoulders above the rest. While traveling with his staff in Tokyo ...

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

In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing that the American public preferred him because he stood for the “common man.” Challenges Jackson never shied away from a challenge, and as ...

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

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

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.