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 about the recovery of Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, CSA, from the American Civil War. The battle/skirmish happened in Munford, Alabama on April 23, 1865, and his body was recovered on ...

One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and received very little schooling as a child. His older brother Hugh died of heat stroke during the Battle of Stono Ferry—a battle ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is being ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to lead a ...

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 ...