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, 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 ...

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 was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf out of his book.

A US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the ... of these facts in nearly every major biography written about him over the past two centuries ...

Andrew Jackson is rumored to have planted the two ... during his first term and even claimed to have been reading a biography on Old Hickory. Since returning to the White House, Trump has made ...

Shortly before Donald Trump’s return to the White House, staffers made sure to rehang an Andrew Jackson portrait that Joe Biden had removed. Trump described America’s seventh president as “a ...

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem explained the Petticoat Affair and how it impacted President Andrew Jackson's cabinet. Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem ...

Amid these preservation efforts, the White House had to contend with a southern magnolia tree planted by former President Andrew Jackson. The tree came from Jackson’s home in Tennessee.

According to Young’s U.S. House biography, Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 12, 1932.