Andrew Jackson

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

American bureaucracy's long and useful history.

In 1828, Jackson's campaign argued that an 1824 victory was stolen from him. Is it really so clear-cut?

A spotlight on a primary source.

John Quincy Adams challenges the idea of an expanding American frontier. 

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.

An American story.

A new Library of America edition of John Quincy Adams’s writings demonstrates the enduring appeal—and real shortcomings—of his revolutionary conservatism.

From historians to horror writers to white nationalists, attempts to explain the settlement's fate reveal a great deal about our own attitudes.

All Americans with some education are aware that Manifest Destiny was one of the Bad Things in our past and very few know any more about it than that.

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

Reformers in the Republican Party had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

The eighth president defined the future of politics.

Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

The U.S. faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings — a clear break from the cooperative system the founders established.

Because Martin Van Buren was an unsuccessful president, his more significant contributions to the nation’s political life have also been obscured.

Historians may never speak of an “Age of Adams” to rival Andrew Jackson, but Randall Woods’s new biography reveals the sixth president’s greatness.