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Yet, as scholars of American history well know, the roots of Biden’s rhetoric go back further still, to yet another president and another official Farewell Address: that of Andrew Jackson in 1837.
Could it be? Are Indiana and Andrew Jackson splitting up? The Indiana Senate passed a resolution in the recent session by a unanimous voice vote, officially recommending that Treasury Secretary ...
President Andrew Jackson wrote to an intelligence officer ... and will dwell in the memory of our citizens alongside the farewell address of the ‘Father of his Country.’” ...
Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home ... a self-interested tyrant and power-mad chieftain, whose farewell address was “happily the last humbug which the mischievous popularity of ...
I think Donald Trump thinks he’s just like Andrew Jackson ... the United States in 1832 and then his farewell address – the main thrust of that was Jackson’s feeling that a concentration ...
Secretary Lew of the Treasury Department is reportedly set to announce that it will be Jackson who will step aside for the first woman (the Sun has long since declared for Sojourner Truth).
Andrew Jackson’s role in the brutal seizure of ... s raging temperament toward Native peoples were overblown. In his farewell address to Congress, Jackson spoke derisively and paternalistically ...
Editor's note: H.W. Brands is the author of “Andrew Jackson” and other works of American history. He is a professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin and is a two-time finalist for ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is ...
His ruffled hair and high forehead are familiar features of the $20 bill, but Andrew Jackson has been its face for less time than you might think. The great irony of Jackson’s visage prominently ...
Ron DeSantis is not the first Florida governor to run for the highest office in the land. Andrew Jackson, who was appointed governor of the Florida Territories, was the first to run, and after a ...