When Andrew Jackson arrived in New Orleans in winter ... Tennessee and conducted a political career, but by 1812, he was back in the military. Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... later attempted to separate the Louisiana Territory from the rest of the US. “Mad Dog Jackson,” as he was known during his military career, led his soldiers to ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing that the American public preferred him because he stood ... by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In the ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone ... an opportunity to look backward, and Jackson, who has surfaced in the news again, is a particularly colorful president. He shot a man to death during a duel and ...

Andrew Jr. would inherit a huge fortune, but he would die in debt ... had a presidential style derived from his military experience. As a general, Jackson rarely summoned councils of war.

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice Democrats are ...

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized as entrenched establishment interests. He frustrated ...