Andrew Jackson was an executioner, a slaver, an ethnic cleanser, and an economic illiterate. He deserves no place on our currency, and nothing but contempt from modern America. See More : ...

Program note: Explore the vicious rematch between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams on “Race For The White House,” Sunday, April 3, at 9 p.m. You’ve probably heard about the movement to ...

But Feller, the "Papers of Andrew Jackson" editor, said it's not surprising that the Treasury Department of 1928 would see Jackson as someone worthy of the honor."It's actually astonishing how ...

Andrew Jackson was not a humble man. Yet if, on his 250th birthday, he can remind us of the need for humility, he will have done his country another good service.

Andrew Jackson absolutely believed that, and was willing to take great measures to guarantee the United States would be a white republic. By Matthew Rozsa Matthew Rozsa is a former Salon staff writer.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will be the new face of the $20 bill, while Jackson, who owned slaves, will move to the back. The two opposing figures represents how our democracy is supposed to work.

On Wednesday, he traveled to Tennessee to commemorate the 250th birthday of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, and toured Jackson’s plantation, which is known as the Hermitage.

The conservative justice said her liberal colleague's dissent "is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent." ...

History Dept. Keep Andrew Jackson on the $20. Critics of the current $20 bill forget the president who made American democracy democratic.

By way of recent comparison, Andrew Jackson's celebrity would be like mixing John Kennedy with Ronald Reagan, and adding Dwight Eisenhower because he was a world-famous war hero, says "Age of ...