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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 ...
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 ...
I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits ...
Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of an executive order on 'saving' the ...
History is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story ...
With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.
I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits ...
It’s not new, this scrubbing of history to make America look like how Donald Trump imagines it should look. In just the first ...