A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The Soldier's Body Recovered in Yard is believed to be the last confederate ...

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to lead a major military ...

For much of the American public however, Jackson's reputation was built not on money matters but on a lady's honor. When Peggy Eaton, the wife of the secretary of war, was snubbed by other wives ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem provided a brief overview of the early months of President Andrew Jackson's first term in 1829. This lesson explores the first 100 days of ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... his victory against the British at New Orleans catapulted him to war hero status. Presidential Places is a weekly series on past ...

Early in the life of the new republic it was posed by the election to the presidency in 1828 of Andrew Jackson ... “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and ...