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Burials of 28 people Andrew Jackson enslaved found at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee
Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his Hermitage ... surveys and aerial images to identify graves that were referenced in a 1935 report.
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Unlike Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson resisted sycophants
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine16d
When a House Painter Failed to Assassinate President Andrew Jackson, It Was the First Such Attempt in U.S. Presidential History
Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Andrew Jackson was exiting the U.S ...
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Andrew Jackson, 1767–1845
In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...
The Conversation23d
Warning of ‘oligarchy,’ Biden channels Andrew Jackson
Yet, as scholars of American history well know, the roots of Biden’s rhetoric go back further still, to yet another president and another official Farewell Address: that of Andrew Jackson in 1837.