His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

When you think of James Polk, if you ever do, you probably picture his presidential portrait with the haunted ... Trump’s first one than Vance. Martin Van Buren was, like Mike Pence, an ...

The eighth president had a commode fit for a commander-in-chief at Lindenwald, his home in Kinderhook, New York.

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback ... suggestions coming from the two higher-profile characters of his administration, Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun. It wasn ...

Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun. It wasn’t just an ideological difference; it was that neither of them had been early Jackson men. Jackson, the president who made no secret that he was ...

Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino (THE CONVERSATION) The portrait of President Andrew Jackson ... characters of his administration, Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun.