The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback in the Oval Office. “Old Hickory” – Jackson’s nickname ...

Yet there is more to Andrew Jackson than his supposed populism. He was a brilliant general who rose up from hardship to achieve great wealth and power. He was also a white supremacist through and ...

Worried about the concept of Presidential power and how it can be misused ... I speak of course of President Andrew Jackson. In order to understand Jackson’s Presidency you need to understand ...

“He certainly believed that he came from the people and exercised power on behalf of the people,” says historian H. W. Brands, author of Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. “But he wasn’t ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... proved to be major opponents. Due to their strength, Jackson exercised his veto power more than all his predecessors combined, and he was the first president to use ...

Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March ... But the principle that political power in America rested with ordinary people became firmly entrenched. In time, this principle would mandate ...

Mr. Trump is part of a strain of American politics that Andrew Jackson brought to power in 1828. In domestic politics, Jacksonians are skeptical of big business, hate the political and social esta ...

Only three candidates—Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon ... that forged his path to power. He successfully portrayed himself as a political outsider (despite having served, albeit briefly, in ...

during President Andrew Jackson’s second term, as his battle with the Senate over the Bank of the United States reached a crescendo. The 1834 debate over the scope of the president’s power to ...

In an otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew ... Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans, into power.

Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) called on President Donald Trump to “take a page out of [former President] Andrew Jackson’s ...