"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring ...

A cartoon of President Andrew Jackson atop a pig depicts his spoils system, which rewarded party members with government jobs. Bettmann/GettyImages Jackson was quite wrong about some of his ...

The trouble started in the 1820s when Andrew Jackson rebelled against ... “To the victors belong the spoils of the enemy,” gloated Jackson’s ally, Sen. William Marcy of New York.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

“The evidence clearly shows that CPS is failing at its basic task of educating all students – yet rather than addressing this problem, district leaders chose to create a racial spoils ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...

As the money inside the game of basketball explodes into a multi-billion dollar industry, the players - at every level - want their share of the spoils. And as every layer of the system becomes ...