By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback in the Oval Office. “Old Hickory” – Jackson’s nickname – has long been a favorite of President Donald Trump. And there is a ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times “the Jacksonian era.” ...

Andrew Jackson was a president who was quite visible ... In this bill introduced and supported by Republicans, the Revolutionary War-era Aitken Bible was made one of the first official state ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...