President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson ...

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

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

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

his lack of a majority gave the House of Representatives the power to choose a president. Frustrated by what he considered a stolen election, Jackson ran again and won in a landslide in 1828.

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.

Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew ... When he became the seventh president of the U.S., he brought people he enslaved to the White House. In 1804, Jackson ...

Angling for a national command, he became a celebrity for slaughtering the British at New Orleans in 1815. Thomas Jefferson, who, as vice president, had presided as the 30-year-old Sen.

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...