Next month we celebrate the bicentennial of Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. On that day, our borders were secured. However, our American democracy remained in its adolescence.

In the case of Andrew Jackson, the current narrative leans towards ... Americans as a "champion of the common man, a symbol of democracy," and "second only to Abraham Lincoln as the champion ...

Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March ... Jackson’s foremost achievement was securing the triumph of democracy as the touchstone of American politics. Jackson was born a subject ...

On Wednesday, President Trump paid a visit to Andrew Jackson’s grave in Nashville, Tennessee, to lay a wreath and pay his respects. Trump isn’t the first president to visit Jackson’s ...

Feller described the disagreements this way: “Jackson was the great champion of the common man. No, he was an ethnic cleanser. He was a spokesman of democracy; no, he was a racist slaveholder. “Donald ...

and the conflict that makes up a dynamic democracy. Barbara Bair, Steve Inskeep and Jon Meacham examine the tragedy of Andrew Jackson's personal life, the brutality of his battles and his policies ...

Andrew Jackson’s legacy opened the door for Americans from all economic backgrounds to participate in politics. For that, he deserves our thanks. But let’s not whitewash Jacksonian democracy.

In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.

He is the author of Andrew Jackson and other works ... secured the future of democracy in America. The pre-Jackson era was the Augustan age of presidents, with George Washington being the model ...

His father, John Adams, and most of the other founders had feared that republicanism would degenerate into democracy ... had chosen: Andrew Jackson. The morning of Adams' defeat should have ...

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is ...