NASHVILLE — President Trump, in his first days in office, has been drawing comparisons to Andrew Jackson, the pugilistic populist president who campaigned against elites and was known as ...

Andrew Jackson wasn't big into backing down. The president participated in more than 100 duels over his lifetime. Mental Floss writes of the seventh president's tendency to step outside: Often ...

Why Andrew Jackson never should have been on the $20 to begin with The decision to replace the 7th president with Harriet Tubman has predictably caused protest. It shouldn't.

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.

"Andrew Jackson engineered a genocide," Jillian Keenan more bluntly wrote in Slate last March. "He shouldn’t be on our currency." Keenan suggests Harriet Tubman, whose ascendence to the $20 bill ...

President Trump, a noted fan of Andrew Jackson, has some unresolved questions about problems that followed the seventh president’s leadership: like the Civil War. Why was there a Civil War in ...

A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ago is set to be felled next week, President Trump announced Sunday.

Jackson went on to win the presidency in 1828 and reelection in 1832, but it was the 1824 campaign, prefaced by his momentous victory at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, that ...

Andrew Jackson, who was appointed governor of the Florida Territories, was the first to run, and after a failed attempt in 1824, was elected and reelected in the next two contests.

Two hundred years after the Battle of New Orleans was waged -- earning it an eternal place in Louisiana history books and further burnishing Andrew Jackson's reputation as one of ...