Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Metal Detecting Lost Camp of Andrew Jackson - Part 3 is a search for camp used by Jackson, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... fascinating detail in a 2005 article in the journal Ohio Valley History. She notes that John Quincy Adams' presidential campaigns ...

Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the most portrayed chief executives in history, reflecting his stature as a military hero and an authoritative leader.

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the history of presidential portraiture, reflecting his stature as a military hero and an authoritative leader. Caricaturists ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the first Democratic National ...

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 ...

Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana ... of Indigenous peoples would tarnish his reputation in the history books, but at the time, most regarded him as an ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...