and to a foundational identity for Biden’s Democratic Party. Americans have been likening Andrew Jackson to Donald Trump ever since Trump himself proclaimed Jackson as his presidential model during ...

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 ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... dinners in search of less controversial standard-bearers. The Democratic Party is wrestling with Jackson's support of slavery and his ruthless ...

Inconveniently, Jackson ... by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded what is now the world’s oldest political party.

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... While his use of the symbol died down, the donkey would later become a symbol of the new Democratic Party. Supporters of Adams accused Jackson of being a tyrant who ...

Unfortunately for the Democratic Party, Nast was also a committed Republican ... between the Democrats and donkeys. In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was running for election, rivals gave him the ...

The modern Democratic Party emerged in the 1820s under the leadership of Andrew Jackson, who became the party's first ...

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