By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

The 47th president says he’ll comply with court decisions. The seventh didn’t always do so.

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval ... he sent troops to the border until it backed down. Jackson’s first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Mr.

The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the “Corrupt Bargain” election of 1824. Challenges In Congress, “Whigs,” as ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with ... Journal thundered in an 1828 editorial. Throughout the election, Jackson tried to shield Rachel, who already loathed the idea of leaving the Hermitage ...

But who could blame him? In the wake of former President Andrew Jackson's 1828 election victory over then sitting President John Quincy Adams, Rachel Jackson \-- his wife -- died of a heart attack.

Jackson’s first election was opposed by his four living predecessors, as Trump’s was by his five. But Jackson was the first and so far only president who determined his party’s presidential ...

Frustrated by what he considered a stolen election, Jackson ran again and won in a landslide in 1828. His connection to the working man ensured him reelection to a second term in 1832. After his ...