Andrew Jackson

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

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.

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost from none other than Walt Disney.

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

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?