People are people, through history. The basics of psychology, e.g. self-defense, are the same. The expressions and values attached to those needs are frequently incomprehensible to another age, especially when vast amounts of explanatory detail are lost. I was taught that Jackson was basically a competent leader in his time, with an emphasis on international development in the New World. The relocation of the Indians was a black mark 70 years ago and I see time has only added to the controversy of that episode, not resolved anything. Not a peep about banks which preoccupy so many now.