In Defense of Andrew Jackson, Bradley J. Birzer, Regnery History, 209 pages I grew up with an affinity for our seventh president. It came naturally—partly from patriotic interest in U.S. history ...

This much is true: Andrew Jackson, who was president from 1829-1837, helped to avert a plausible civil war, generations before the actual one. In the 1830's, South Carolina insisted on its right ...

President Andrew Jackson wrote to an intelligence officer that nullification “leads directly to civil war and bloodshed and deserves the execration of every ... In a powerful recent book, ...

NASHVILLE — President Trump, in his first days in office, has been drawing comparisons to Andrew Jackson, the pugilistic populist president who campaigned against elites and was known as ...

This feisty general known as “Old Hickory” became the nation’s seventh president. Andrew Jackson was born in the Carolinas, in 1767. During the Revolutionary War, when he was 13, … ...

Next month we celebrate the bicentennial of Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. On that day, our borders were secured. However, our American democracy remained in its adolescence.

Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in Tennessee, the lead slugs in his body at long last having their intended effect. It was the spring of 1845 and “Old Hickory”—hero of the War ...

In some circumstances, a president’s official Farewell Address to the Nation may be an occasion for sunny reflection. President Joe Biden’s, ... that of Andrew Jackson in 1837.

Perhaps the origins of the popular mandate lay with President Andrew Jackson. His 1832 reelection campaign became, among other things, a referendum on the controversial Bank of the United States .

Jackson, the seventh president, enslaved more than 150 people and had little issue using the free labor of Black people to become rich and powerful. He was a racist, history shows.

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.’” ...