Andrew Jackson

It happened during Andrew Jackson’s administration, with fatal consequences.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

Outlandish rumors helped elect Presidents Jackson and Van Buren and have been with us ever since.

How the so-called champion of the common man set a precedent for using federal troops to quash labor unrest.

“John Marshall...exhibited a subservience to the executive branch that continues to haunt us.”

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.

The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.

President Trump is by no means off the mark to call attention to Andrew Jackson as a precursor. The analogy, however, is not necessarily flattering.

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.

"Why could that one not have been worked out?"

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”

Populism stretches through the American experience.

Tribal sovereignty is a concept that even some of the protesters may not be familiar with. But it's important.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.