Proclamation Regarding Nullification: Resources

You'll have to create a free account for this one, but the Gilder Lehman Institute is a great one-stop shop for all your American history needs.

Get your hands dirty with the dust of the Library of Congress archive (Okay, so maybe you have to imagine some digital dust). Click here to fill your heart's desire with all the primary source documents you'll need on the Nullification Crisis.

A film about politics, love, and intrigue—but if it's about Jackson, what else can you expect? The film covers Jackson's early life and the scandals surrounding his relationship with Rachel Robards. Who needs soap operas when you have American history?

Before there was Hamilton, there was Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, an emo-flavored rock opera about Old Hickory himself.

This PBS documentary captures the walking contradiction that was our 7th President.

There's a film in the works to be called Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. Producers Ken and Fred Atchity, announcing the film last year, said they hoped to get Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in major roles. Good luck with that.

Comparisons between Trump and Jackson have been coming fast and furious.

Music? Cartoons? Nullification? What's not to love about this video?

Some teachers will try anything to make the Nullification Crisis interesting.

This video gets down with democracy and lets in you in the ways that Jackson lastingly influenced American politics, even if a huge chunk of the country really hated his guts. It's a seriously awesome video.

How did Jackson, the "common man," legendary war hero, and brazen duelist meet his final demise? Watch this video to find out.

Watch this video on the causes of the Civil War and ask yourself, doesn't this whole mess sound a little familiar?

In the 1950s, a high school principal, wanting to make history come alive, wrote a song about Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. It became a hit record in 1959, recorded by Johnny Horton. This is the kind of stuff your grandparents called pop music.

Having pretty much invented the spoils system, Jackson deserved a monument to it. Well, a cartoon, anyway.

Nullies felt that Jackson ruled like a tyrant.

One step too far or just the right height?

The official White House portrait.

These will be historical artifacts in a decade.

Henry Clay couldn't stand to hear one more word out of Jackson about the Second Bank of the United States, so he took matters into his own hands and sewed up his mouth in this political cartoon.