A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ...

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 ...

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is ...

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 ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... of Abominations,” presaging its later actions that led to the Civil War. Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act; thousands of Cherokees ...

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 US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front ... 16th president led a weary nation through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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 ...