At a time when such a heavy proportion of second-rate or downright shoddy historical writing is being widely praised and widely read, it is a pleasure to report on a book like this and find oneself ...

In an essay that’s getting a lot of attention, Jonathan Chait has consolidated many decades of arguments against a tottering mythology of the Democratic Party as an uninterrupted tradition that ...

Zakaras makes a powerful argument that the Jacksonian era (1820–50), generally treated by historians as a politically unimportant interlude between the founding of the United States and the Civil War, ...

The Jacksonian era in antebellum America was, like our own age, a time of extreme democratization and rampant anti-elitism. Now, too, the democratization of knowledge and truth can produce an odd ...

A people in motion -- Launching the Jacksonian ship of state -- The party battles of the first term -- Politics, a tariff, and a bank -- The close of a reign -- The little magician takes the reins -- ...

Providence, R.I. – Many people have compared Donald Trump’s presidency to that of Andrew Jackson in the first half of the 19th century. Trump himself hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office. And ...