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Originally published 04/20/2018
Can Books by a Fired High Official Like James Comey Damage a President?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
It’s happened before. The president? Andrew Jackson, Trump’s favorite.
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Originally published 04/03/2018
Trump and Jackson: Two Power Grabbers, but with a Difference
Donald J. Fraser
Trump is self-serving, while Jackson used his power to advance democracy.
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Originally published 01/22/2018
Steve Bannon says historian Walter Russell Mead was the inspiration for hanging Jackson’s portrait in the Oval Office
Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.
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Originally published 01/03/2018
Making Andrew Jackson Great Again?
Manisha Sinha
We are living in an age of not just fake news but fake history.
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Originally published 11/28/2017
Andrew Jackson was called ‘Indian killer.’ Trump honored Navajos in front of his portrait.
The prominent placement of an Andrew Jackson portrait during an event meant to honor a group of Native Americans at the Oval Office on Monday has raised questions about the White House’s message.
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Originally published 10/24/2017
Trump Is the New ________
Zachary Jonathan Jacobson
Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.
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Originally published 10/13/2017
The Democratic Autocrat
Nancy Isenberg
Jackson. Trump. Dragon slayers or savage bullies?
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Originally published 10/11/2017
So Trump’s Disparaging His Own Cabinet Members?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
He’s borrowing tactics from his hero Andrew Jackson.
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Originally published 09/01/2017
Will Trump Upend the Plan to Replace Jackson with Tubman on the Front of the $20 Bill?
Jeremy J. Tewell
She may not survive Trump extreme vetting.
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Originally published 08/24/2017
Another Way in Which Jackson and Trump Are Linked (And It’s Disturbing)
Donald J. Fraser
The followers of both men believe that you have to be white to be a true American.
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Originally published 08/11/2017
The Two Andrew Jacksons
Michael Kazin
Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.
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Originally published 08/07/2017
Historian J.M.Opal disputes the enduring image that Jackson painted of himself
J.M. Opal
It’s in a new book, "Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation.”
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Originally published 06/16/2017
Can Presidents Shape An Entire Era?
Michael Todd Landis
Trump and the Possibility of a New “Age of Jackson”
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Originally published 06/14/2017
Forget Nixon. Trump is more like Andrew Jackson than Tricky Dick
Kevin Baker
And the consequences of his crimes will be far more devastating.
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Originally published 05/24/2017
The Shameful Way Donald Trump Is Like Andrew Jackson
Daniel Walker Howe
What Trump and Jackson have in common is not always to the credit of either.
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Originally published 05/17/2017
More Americans think Trump would have stopped the Civil War than think the same about Andrew Jackson
20% of respondents believe that Trump would have stopped the Civil War from happening if he was alive at the time, whereas 16% of respondents believe Jackson would have if he was.
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Originally published 05/05/2017
Hillary Clinton decried the forces that cost her the presidency. So did Andrew Jackson.
There was another presidential contest loser who also chose the vocal-and-angry route — none other than Trump’s hero, Andrew Jackson.
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Originally published 05/01/2017
Historians react to Trump’s Civil War comments: ‘That’s entirely wrong in every respect’
President Trump during an interview questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.
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Originally published 04/17/2017
Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class’
Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid.
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Originally published 03/22/2017
President Trump Praised Both Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay
They hated each other.
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Originally published 03/20/2017
Donald Trump Is Not a Twenty-First Century Andrew Jackson
Mark R. Cheathem
Historical comparisons can be just as misleading as they can be enlightening. Many of the similarities between the two men are superficial and collapse quickly.
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Originally published 03/20/2017
So where did Trump get the idea that he’s Andrew Jackson?
It was from Steve Bannon.
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Originally published 03/16/2017
Trump tours The Hermitage, lays wreath on Andrew Jackson's tomb
Jackson's populist politics have resonated with Trump. Upon moving into the White House last month, the new president hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office.
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Originally published 02/10/2017
If Andrew Jackson Is Trump’s Hero, What Can We Learn from that?
Bruce W. Dearstyne
Studying Jackson's presidency – the good and the regrettable – may be a useful way of getting insights into Trump's view of the presidency.
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Originally published 02/09/2017
When Presidents Think About Defying the Courts
Jeff Shesol
Jackson, Lincoln, Nixon, and even Jefferson defied the courts. FDR thought about doing it.
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Originally published 02/02/2017
The Jacksonian Revolt
Walter Russell Mead
Many Jacksonians came to believe that the American establishment was no longer reliably patriotic, with “patriotism” defined as an instinctive loyalty to the well-being and values of Jacksonian America.
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Originally published 01/31/2017
Another Way in Which Trump Is Proving to Be Like Andrew Jackson – Alas
Michael Todd Landis
Jackson also fired an official who objected to an illegal act. It was, in effect, the ‘original’ Saturday Night Massacre.
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Originally published 01/30/2017
President Trump’s Speechwriters Might Want to Re-examine Andrew Jackson’s Inaugural Address
Laurence Jurdem
Jackson did not talk the way Trump does.
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Originally published 01/25/2017
Trump hangs portrait of Andrew Jackson in Oval Office
Trump's rise has often been compared to the populist election of Jackson, including by some of the new president's own team.
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Originally published 06/09/2016
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks about his book "Jacksonland" and what it says about America’s democratic tradition
"What Trump captures is Jackson's attitude, which you could probably say of a lot of other politicians through the generations."
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Originally published 03/11/2016
The Disturbing Parallels Between Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson
Matthew Mason
But one vital difference may make all the difference between 1828 and 2016.
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Originally published 09/30/2015
Is There an Alternative to Taking Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson Off Our Money?
Thomas Fleming
Here’s my proposal.
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Originally published 09/14/2015
Is Donald Trump Another Andrew Jackson?
Alfred J. Zacher
There are some striking parallels in the support both have received.
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Originally published 07/24/2015
Connecticut Democrats drop Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson names from annual fundraising dinner
Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.
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Originally published 07/07/2015
How Jackson Made a Killing in Real Estate
Steve Inskeep
We all know the warrior president kicked Indians off their land. What's less known is why.
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Originally published 06/16/2015
Keep Andrew Jackson on the $20
David Greenberg
Critics of the current $20 bill forget the president who made American democracy democratic.
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Originally published 05/28/2015
Andrew Jackson’s Reputation Is Changing Again
Steve Inskeep
The debunkers in the seventies focused on the Trail of Tears. Now historians are taking a broader perspective.
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Originally published 03/09/2015
Why is Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill? The answer may be lost to history.
Jackson's place of honor became a big topic once again this week after a nonprofit group called Women on 20's suggested that it was time to retire the Jackson $20 and replace it with a bill featuring women from American history.
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Originally published 12/12/2013
The Anti-Jacksonians
Sean Wilentz
Historical analogies are oft imperfect, and the Tea Party=Jacksonian Democrats meme is more imperfect than most.
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Originally published 12/01/2013
Andrew Jackson: Symbol of a Southern Age
Mark R. Cheathem
From the Revolution through to the Civil War, the South dominated American political life.
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Originally published 11/12/2013
Digital history for undergraduates….without the coding
Aaron Cowan
The digital humanities are rapidly transforming both the discipline of history and the pedagogy of public history.
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Originally published 05/06/2013
Steve Yoder: It’s Time for Democrats to Ditch Andrew Jackson
Steve Yoder is a frequent contributor to The Crime Report. He writes about criminal justice, immigration, small business and real estate. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, Good, The Fiscal Times and elsewhere. Spring means that appeals for money are bursting forth from both major political parties. It also means Democratic officials in states and counties around the country are busy getting people out to their major fundraiser, the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. And they’re bringing in the big guns: Vice President Joe Biden will keynote the South Carolina Democrats’ dinner tonight.But after an election in which Democrats rode a wave of minority support to keep the White House and Senate, party activists should wonder about one of the founders for whom that event is named. If branding matters, then the tradition of honoring perhaps the most systematic violator of human rights for America’s nonwhites should finally run its course.
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Originally published 05/04/2017
"Why Was There the Civil War?" Here’s Your Answer.
Jim Loewen
Getting the Civil War wrong was part of the program of white supremacy during the Nadir. Today, getting it right is not just Trump’s responsibility — it’s all of ours.
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