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.

Trump has survived by – consciously or not – following the example of another American president who created a political party in his own image and used it to rule almost unchecked: Andrew ...

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 otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew Jackson “presided over the ‘Tariff of Abominations.’” This requires ...

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.

He ordered the government to give the free men of color their promised land, but federal officials refused and dropped the ...

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 ...

As the nation prepares for a second Donald Trump presidency, some history-minded people may seek understanding in the idea that it wasn’t until Richard Nixon’s second presidential term that the ...

The 1828 presidential campaign is also the origin of the Democratic party's mascot -- the donkey. Andrew Jackson's opponents called him a "jackass" during the campaign, and Jacksonians adopted it ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Late last year, with the help of an anonymous donor who ...

Trump has survived by – consciously or not – following the example of another American president who created a political party in his own image and used it to rule almost unchecked: Andrew ...