On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson announced that the government ... set up a national bank as a central repository for federal funds. The successor bank that Jackson reviled as an ...

Steve Inskeep is co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition and author of Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson ... “So anti-central bank Indian genocide junkie Jackson stays on the $20 while American ...

In case you missed the news, President Trump chose the portrait of Andrew Jackson to hang in the Oval Office ... a national currency issued by a central bank he loathed. Jackson must have rolled over ...

Andrew Jackson. Quoting from Jackson’s 1832 speech following his veto of the renewal of the charter for the Second Bank of the United States: “Many of our rich men have not been content with ...

One hundred and seventy-nine years ago today, President Andrew Jackson ... sum of money. Jackson, who was engaged in a brutal struggle with the Whigs over the National Bank, was nevertheless ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... Caricaturists satirized every facet of Jackson’s political agenda, including his promise to cleanse the government of corruption, his fight to kill the National ...

The crisis came to a head in the summer of 1832 when the House and Senate passed a bill renewing the Charter of the Second Bank of the US early. Not only did Jackson veto the bill and give one of ...

Editor's note: H.W. Brands is the author of “Andrew Jackson” and other works of American history. He is a professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin and is a two-time finalist for ...