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

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 ...

The return of the portrait of the seventh president is a reminder of certain resemblances between the two. Jackson's demeanor ...

In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing that the American public preferred him because he stood for the “common man.” Challenges Jackson never shied away from a challenge, and as ...

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 ...

He pulled a derringer single-shot pistol from his jacket and fired at the president ... with only “King Andrew” standing in his way. The months following Jackson’s attempted assassination ...

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 ...

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.