Historian Matthew Clavin: Andrew Jackson was terrible, but he likely would have despised Donald Trump

By questioning the cause of the Civil War, Trump was blowing a dog whistle to white nationalists & neo-confederates

Trump’s populism, pulled from shadows of racism, sexism, economic jealousies and grievance politics, is ugly enough

Trump described the decision to put Tubman on the $20 bill as "pure political correctness" during a 2016 town hall

"The moment is Jacksoninan but do we have a Jackson in the Oval Office?", asks author Jon Meacham of Trump

Beneath Trump's idiotic Andrew Jackson rant lies a real history of neo-Confederate sentiment and overt racism

Jackson created a cult of personality and pandered to racists — but compared to Trump, he was a visionary

Videos posted to social media show protesters using ropes in an attempt to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson

Former Virginia senator Jim Webb is annoyed that everyone is focusing on the genocidal aspects of Andrew Jackson

Jackson's America saw an era of the marginalization of people, while using exceptionalism and progress as mantras

Frederick Douglass, Andrew Jackson and "medieval times": Our president, who is "like a smart person," knows it all

A passing familiarity with Abraham Lincoln would have answered Trump's question

The president also vowed to issue an executive order on the matter, though it remains unclear what it would do

Couldn't the Civil War have been "worked out," asks the actual president? Sure — by keeping black people in chains

Steve Bannon often compares his boss to a legendary populist — who was also a ruthless racist and empire builder