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

Though Jackson had a political advantage, his campaign aimed mostly to defend him ... Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the most portrayed chief ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched ... an image that is taking a beating during the 2016 presidential campaign as Democrats cast off Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from state party fundraising ...

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.

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

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

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.” ...

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

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United ... the Democratic Party during the 1828 presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson. His opponents labeled him a "jackass" (a donkey ...

The donkey’s association with the Democratic Party traces back to Andrew Jackson’s 1828 ... whole new level.Obama’s campaign marked a transformative moment in political branding.

Feb. 4 (UPI) --President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to sycophants. The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has ...