The return of the portrait of the seventh president is a reminder of certain resemblances between the two. Jackson's demeanor, like Trump's, appalled ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...

After stints as Secretary of State and ambassador to Great Britain, Van Buren served as Andrew Jackson’s vice president for Old Hickory’s second term. Martin van Buren’s sole term as ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... and he felt like his career had kind of died," said Marsha Mullin, vice president of museum services and chief curator of the Hermitage.

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun ...

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made ... Not coincidentally, he was able to purge anyone who supported his hated vice president, John Calhoun. Britain and France both tried to keep the ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

Thomas Jefferson, who, as vice president, had presided as the 30-year-old Rep. Jackson exploded in fury, called him "a dangerous man" and told visitors to Monticello years later that he was ...