President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated − but there are lessons in Old Hickory’s resistance to sycophants
President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson ...
Pagosa Daily Post4d
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Advocates of States’ Rights Are Sometimes Wrong
Having failed at nullification as a means to ignore federal laws, in 1861 South Carolina tried a different approach. They seceded from the United States, and fired artillery at the federal fort in ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
When a House Painter Failed to Assassinate President Andrew Jackson, It Was the First Such Attempt in U.S. Presidential History
Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...