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

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

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 ...

Historians rated the US presidents on leadership qualities. The survey did not include Joe Biden since he was still in office ...

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf out of his book.

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

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 ...

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

The Pendleton Act of 1883 removed political influence from many federal jobs. Its influence shaped the civil service ...

Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd ...

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 ...