The Democratic Party is on the hunt for a new pair of fathers. Last week, Democrats in Connecticut rather matter-of-factly decided to oust Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from their place of ...

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 ...

In Arkansas, party representative Candace Martin acknowledges that “If you look at the overall values of the Democratic Party, then Andrew Jackson probably would not be representative ...

Events honor Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, founder of the Democratic Party. Both men owned slaves. Steve Inskeep talks to Mary Mancini, chairwoman of the Tennessee Democratic Party.

The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828.

Andrew Jackson has at least one Democratic fan: Bloomberg View. Updated: Aug. 14, ... His views on Andrew Jackson provide more evidence of how much more conservative Webb is than most Democrats.

John F. Kennedy Broke Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party a Long Time Ago. Robert David Sullivan July 07, 2015. New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait thinks it’s crazy that Andrew Jackson, ...

You’ve probably heard about the movement to replace Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 bill, ... Jackson was the first president under the newly created Democratic Party, ...

Andrew Jackson’s campaigns for president in the 1820s betray many parallels with today’s tea party movement. Jackson displayed the same strong desire for less government, faith in private ...

Andrew Jackson is such a pillar of the Democratic Party that its biggest fundraising day is called “Jefferson-Jackson Day,” with Jefferson-Jackson Dinners being held all across the country. In ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.