It is long overdue that a woman and person of color be honored our nation's banknotes. No one is more deserving of the distinction than Harriet Tubman. Yet why was Andrew Jackson depicted our $20 ...

President Andrew Jackson bought “Poll” for his wife Rachel in 1827, roughly a year before she died. Poll stayed at Jackson’s ...

Andrew Jackson blamed his wife's death on the critics who hit their marriage during the 1828 campaign. Story by Rachel Smolkin and Brenna Williams, CNN ... is a particularly colorful president.

What Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson have in common By . Seymour Morris Jr. Published Jan. 22, 2017, ... and his reality-TV résumé has created the image of a colorful anomaly in the Oval Office.

Andrew Jackson was one of a dozen early U.S. presidents who owned slaves, and identifying their graves has been a priority at these historic sites. These graves will tell a more inclusive story ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. If there is one president that Donald Trump wants to associate with himself, it’s Andrew Jackson. The 45th president has repeatedly praised Jackson in his speeches ...

Jackson’s work to increase the political power and wealth of lower-class white men at the expense of people of color and women is not worthy of celebration or reverence in a post-Fourteenth ...

After Aaron Burr shot Hamilton, he traveled to Tennessee, where the colorful rogue visited none other than Andrew Jackson, then a rising state politician. They hit it off and talked for days ...

Andrew Jackson owned nine people when he bought his Nashville plantation, ... But to get inside, the students — 85 percent of whom are children of color — pass under a sign honoring Jackson.

Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March 15. For much of that quarter-millennium, he was one of the most admired figures in American life.

Jackson, of Knoxville, Tennessee, will speak on the colorful saga of Andrew Jackson’s rise from an orphaned youth, to his military career during the War of 1812, to his serving as president from ...