Andrew Jackson’s campaigns for president in the 1820s betray many parallels with today’s tea party movement. Jackson displayed the same strong desire for less government, faith in private ...

History Dept. The First Time Party Bigwigs Tried to Stop a Front-Runner From Becoming President It Backfired—Big-time. What the GOP can learn from the story of Andrew Jackson in 1824.

Andrew Jackson is being booted from the $20 bill, which isn’t bad. ... setting the model for client-based governing that the Democratic party in particular has followed ever since.

Andrew Jackson was a rich populist who bragged and invited scorn. ... Now Trump’s inner circle — Bannon chief among them — is causing alarm even among members of the Republican Party.

It turns out that even in 1833, Americans were arguing over the intent of the Founders. This month, we were contacted by a descendant of both the families of Andrew Jackson's wife (Donelson) and ...

Jackson's election in 1828 splintered Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Republican Party. The Jacksonian faction started calling themselves Democrats, while Jackson's critics adopted the term Whig.

John F. Kennedy Broke Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party a Long Time Ago. Robert David Sullivan July 07, 2015. New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait thinks it’s crazy that Andrew Jackson, ...

The Democratic Party is on the hunt for a new pair of fathers. Last week, Democrats in Connecticut rather matter-of-factly decided to oust Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from their place of ...

Like Jackson, Trump reshaped his party. In many ways, though, Trump more closely resembles Jackson than the scandal-plagued Nixon. Following his narrow defeat in the controversial 1824 election ...

Events honor Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, founder of the Democratic Party. Both men owned slaves. Steve Inskeep talks to Mary Mancini, chairwoman of the Tennessee Democratic Party.