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 ...

Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun. It wasn’t just an ideological difference; it was that neither of them had been early ...

We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

One of the most vexing political questions throughout American history has been the role and importance of the vice president. Originally, the vice president was little more than a backup in case the ...

When Martin Van Buren was inaugurated in March 1837, the weather was gentler than the icy terror that descended upon Washington yesterday to welcome President Trump ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vice president-elect is sworn in first and repeats ... John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Johnson. Trump was the first to do so in over 150 years. In 2025, Inauguration Day falls ...

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...