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

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are ...

Trump is targeting courts across the country as judges block several of his decisions. The move has already been tried by Andrew Jackson centuries ago.

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

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun in the mid-19th century.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) added his name Tuesday to a growing list of President Donald Trump allies calling for the executive ...

The 47th president says he’ll comply with court decisions. The seventh didn’t always do so.

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

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

Yet, as scholars of American history well know, the roots of Biden’s rhetoric go back further still, to yet another president and another official Farewell Address: that of Andrew Jackson in 1837.

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded wha ...