SmartChristian.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WHAT ANDREW JACKSON SAID TO BANKERS IN 1832 “Gentlemen, I have had men watching you (bankers) for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged [...]
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Free Econ 101 course offered to CongressThis should be mandatory for every member of congress. If they are going to mess around with our money, they should have some foundational idea of what they are doing. From : The bailout exposed a fact most watchdogs already knew about Congress — it ain't the London School of Economics.So, the president of Andrew Jackson University, a small online...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... as 1828, when supporters of presidential candidate and incumbent John Quincy Adams called opponent Andrew Jackson a cannibal and a murderer. The previously married Mrs. Jackson got off easy; Adams's supporters merely accused her of being a whore.
MaxRedline (Free subscription) | yesterday
As noted previously , that's Barry Obama's story, and he's sticking to it. Apparently, some work is a little wetter than other work. An Alabama homecoming queen found dead in Melton Hill Lake was first sodomized, beaten and strangled inside a Lovell Road motel, court testimony showed today. Assistant District Attorney General Phil Morton told General Sessions Court Judge Andrew Jackson...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
HORNDOG politicians are nothing new in Washington. As David Reynolds writes in his new book, "Waking Giant," soon after President Andrew Jackson tapped Tennessee Sen. John Eaton as Secretary of War in 1829, Eaton began bedding beauty Peggy...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
We are now in the midst of a major financial panic. This is not a unique occurrence in American history. Indeed, we've had one roughly every 20 years: in 1819, 1836, 1857, 1873, 1893, 1907, 1929, 1987 and now 2008. Many of these marked the beginning of an extended period of economic depression. The Granger CollectionPresident Andrew Jackson destroying the Bank of the United States. Lithograph,...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
When Americans think of President Andrew Jackson, we usually think of him first as a war hero, and second... well, we probably don't think twice. But a new book offers an extended assessment of the Jackson presidency's impact on American art and culture....
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... Yet, it wasn't until 1837, after much tussling over the border with Ohio, that President Andrew Jackson signed a bill that made Michigan the 26th state.The overwhelming winner of that first state governor's race was just 24 years old. Stevens T. Mason already had served several stints as acting governor, after being appointed secretary of the Michigan Territory at the tender age of...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds. About the book, from the publisher:America experienced unprecedented expansion and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. In Waking Giant, Bancroft Prize-winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds illuminates the period's exciting political story as well as the fascinating...
