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

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

During his first term in office, Donald Trump adorned the Oval Office with a portrait of our seventh president, Andrew Jackson. And for four years, Trump praised the precedent Jackson set as a ...

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 ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... He was her second husband; she divorced her first husband, Lewis Robards. In 1802 Jackson was appointed as major general of the Tennessee militia, and would later ...

Jackson's demeanor, like Trump's, appalled his predecessors. He was from the Tennessee frontier, killed a man in a duel, and abandoned Congress to become an elected general in the state militia.

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 Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...