Andrew Jackson

The relationship between presidents and vice presidents is unique and often personal. Sometimes, internal divisions spill out into public life.

The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual.

Before last weekend’s attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other presidents or candidates.

High ideals have always gone together with economic self-interest in the history of the United States.

The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.

The political upheaval of 1824 changed America. The same could happen in 2024.

Over the course of U.S. history, presidential rematches have signaled momentous political upheavals.

Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to "make hard work cool again." He isn’t the first.

The plight of Poland and the limits of America's revolutionary legacy in Jacksonian foreign policy.

Native editors are fighting back.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

Exploring the homes of two presidents, the birthplace of another, and a natural wonder that once drew visitors from far and wide.

The story of President Andrew Jackson's 1,400-pound block of cheese.

Americans have always been deeply divided.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

The panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that triggered a multi-year economic depression.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.

Was Davy Crockett a sellout? And does it matter?

The story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.