President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...
Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...
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 ...
Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... to design a stately Greek Revival tomb, incorporating the images of ancient Greece that symbolized both political and moral virtue.
Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his Hermitage ... surveys and aerial images to identify graves that were referenced in a 1935 report.
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 ...
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 ...