Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828, and by 1830, he had signed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly removed the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw and Cherokee nations from the ...

Andrew Jackson's Hermitage CEO responds to nine common misconceptions about the seventh president. Howard J. Kittell is president and CEO of Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage in Nashville. Here at ...

And the bad blood between Adams and Jackson went back to the election of 1824, when Adams whipped Jackson, who had the most popular votes, in a decision rendered by the House of Representatives ...

By way of recent comparison, Andrew Jackson's celebrity would be like mixing John Kennedy with Ronald Reagan, and adding Dwight Eisenhower because he was a world-famous war hero, says "Age of ...

Why We Should Appreciate Andrew Jackson, ... There are no uniformly good and uniformly bad men of history. ... Parton recognized that Jackson was a man of immense deeds and misdeeds.

Jackson assumed office in March 1829 promising to execute the will of the people. Very quickly, however, he became obsessed with the personal dynamics of his White House staff.

Andrew Jackson is being booted from the $20 bill, ... Jackson, and Tubman, that can’t be a bad thing. They remind us that our politics have always been messy and sometimes bloody. ...

Hoping to find members of your Jackson family, we also located the will of President Andrew Jackson on Ancestry.com, dated Oct. 30, 1845, and filed in Davidson County, Tenn.

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Late last year, with the help of an anonymous donor who ...

Andrew Saunders is a producer on CNN’s documentary series Race for the White House, which is narrated by Kevin Spacey. The campaign of 1824 and its aftermath is featured along with the elections ...

Jackson increased the eligibility for more people to vote (men only, of course). DeSantis has sought to limit it. Jackson fought over 100 duels to redress any perceived slight.

Andrew Jackson argued that the rock was thrown first, and the sword cane deployed second, stabbing his former business partner through the coat, not the body. The future president was acquitted of ...