President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

President Andrew Jackson had some 20,000 of his supporters attend a celebration around the White House following his first inauguration in 1829. The mob quickly grew rowdy, however, with fights ...

After the populist Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), a general of modest origins born in Appalachia, an anti-establishment figure and promoter of Native American displacement, was highlighted during the ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson But a presidential historian says that Jackson diverged in fundamental ways from the path Trump is taking ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

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