Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812, Jackson became a national war hero after a stunning ...

A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ...

It did not take long for the young United States to develop into a two-party democracy, much to the chagrin of some of its founders. And since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic ...

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 ...

The Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States, has its roots in the ideologies of two of the more famous Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.