Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

March 18, 1925, began like any other Wednesday in the Heartland. It didn’t stay normal for long; when the day was over, it ...

A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

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

US Supreme Court Rejects West Virginia’s Effort to Deny a 12-Year-Old Trans Girl Her Right to Play US Supreme Court Rejects West Virginia’s Effort to Deny a 12-Year-Old Trans Girl Her Right to Play ...

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem provided a brief overview of the early months of President Andrew Jackson's first term in 1829. This lesson explores the first 100 days of ...

Democrats on Capitol Hill are waging an internal war against one of their own after the GOP successfully muscled through the Senate a partisan spending bill that drew the votes of Minority Leader ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... of Abominations,” presaging its later actions that led to the Civil War. Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act; thousands of Cherokees ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

Prince Andrew was seen braving the chilly temperatures as he headed out on a horse ride at Windsor Castle — just days after he was slapped with a series of allegations in an upcoming bombshell ...