The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts to pass legislation which Jackson believed favored the elite, including a bill to renew the charter for the Second Bank of the United ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded ... to exchange their state-issued paper money for hard currency. The state banks had depleted their own ...