Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times “the Jacksonian era.” Trump ...

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

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 ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

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 ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...

Andrew Jackson was a president who was quite visible ... In this bill introduced and supported by Republicans, the Revolutionary War-era Aitken Bible was made one of the first official state ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times "the Jacksonian era." ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...