As summer approaches, don’t forget your history. Here’s a presidential lesson or two. John Quincy Adams — despite his great ...

But believe it or not, there was a time–and a rather lengthy one, at that–when a colloquial honorific bestowed upon a president that ... we have Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson, so designated ...

The social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the “mercantile classes” and made Old Hickory President were the same kind of forces that made the New Deal powerful. (The COMMON ...

Malone is the president of the Old Hickory Village Neighborhood Association. Although development hasn’t happened as quickly as some other Davidson County communities, Malone and Brummett are ...

Credit: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback in the Oval Office. “Old Hickory” – Jackson’s nickname – has long been a favorite of ...

The two tap into the same definition of freedom. They both believe the president has freedom from all restraint and from every form of legislative or judicial control. However, differences exist ...