In which John Green teaches you about the presidency of Andrew Jackson So how did a president with astoundingly bad fiscal policies end up on the $20 bill? That's a question we can't answer, but we can tell you how Jackson got to be...

HipHughes plows his way through the field of Jackson. Perfect for those in need of saving or those interested in learning. I promise to help you brain wrinkle and to lol.

Andrew Jackson was both beloved and loathed during his presidency. In this imaginary courtroom, you get to be the jury, considering and weighing Jackson's part in the spoils system, economic depression, and the Indian Removal Act, as...

Discover the turbulent story behind the creation of the United States national banks, in which all three branches of the federal government combined to safeguard the nation's economic stability.

A video lecturing summarizing the Presidential election of 1832 between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay.

A short, explicit lecture aimed at the heart of Jacksonian ideas, brought to your by your host, Mr. Hughes.

Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. A lawyer and a landowner, he became a national war hero after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812....

A summary of the cray cray Presidential Election of 1824.

Mr. Hughes throws it down on Sectionalism, breezing through the essential causes of the American Civil War beginning with the ratification of the Constitution and culminating with the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln

The 12th episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. I hope to have them done by Election Day 2016. In 1832, the country's first prominent third party gives it a go, and then a fourth...

The Panic of 1819, triggered by land speculation, reduced exports and a cutback in credit, led to America's first major financial crisis and reshaped its economic policies.