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

Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson professor of history emeritus ... that makes it more real for people.” The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but nearly ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... husband were to leave for Washington and the presidency. She was buried on Christmas Eve in the white, satin gown she had planned to ...

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in 1832 by the first Democratic National Convention, and there is something to be said for the man who founded wha ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to sycophants. The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has ...