See About archive blog posts. The Pulitzer Prize for biography went to ‘American Lion: Andrew Jackson and the White House’ by Jon Meacham, it was announced today.

In 2010, the Andrew Jackson Foundation started an annual commemoration of those once enslaved at The Hermitage. Former President Jackson owned 300 slaves in his lifetime.

Trump orders president Andrew Jackson's magnolia tree to be removed Donald Trump has announced that the magnolia tree, which is over 200 years old, will be removed due to safety concerns.

The Andrew Jackson Foundation announced on Tuesday the appointment of Jason R. Zajac as its next president and CEO to replace Howard J. Kittell who retired in June after a 16-year tenure.

The Hermitage in Nashville is the former plantation of Andrew Jackson. Antony-22 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the ...