The eighth president had a commode fit for a commander-in-chief at Lindenwald, his home in Kinderhook, New York.

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

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

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

Jackson felt indebted to him because Eaton had run his presidential campaigns of 1824 and 1828 ... coming from the two higher-profile characters of his administration, Martin Van Buren and John C.

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

Jackson’s new secretary of state was Martin Van Buren ... re going to be sorry about this.” Van Buren actually orchestrated a letter writing campaign against Swartwout from all of his ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Jackson felt indebted to him because Eaton had run his presidential campaigns of 1824 and 1828 ... characters of his administration, Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun. It wasn’t just an ...