Some claimed that Jackson was simply extending the policies of previous administrations; James Monroe had warned European ...

Ronald Reagan’s administration is often described as the first to use the unitary executive theory to expand power.

Nearly 200 years ago on Jan. 30, 1835, President Andrew Jackson survived the first assassination attempt on an American ...

The Rated Red Crew explains how Andrew Jackson survived a sword to the head and somehow got angrier afterward.

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Grave of Gen. Peter Corbin Chambliss — a soldier under Andrew Jackson, buried far from home ...