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Art students from across the state and surrounding states are at Hastings College to broaden their skills after high school. The event is called ‘open space’ and it brings 19 students to campus, who ...
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of ...
Andrew Jackson was not a humble man. Yet if, on his 250th birthday, he can remind us of the need for humility, he will have done his country another good service.
Andrew Jackson grew up in the Waxhaws wilderness region in the Carolinas; he received a spotty education in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. During the war, Jackson’s eldest brother, ...
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.
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one ...
During the presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), however, the pretense of “merit” was scrapped in favor of a “populist” spoils system in which he hired friends and others loyal to him.
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.
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In my new biography of Jackson, A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I detail his remarkable life.
Andrew Jackson Higgins, native of Nebraska, designed and built in New Orleans the famous amphibious landing craft used by the U.S. and Allies to fight and win World War II.
Poll's behavior at Jackson's funeral was described in a letter decades after the funeral in the 1921 book, "Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History" by S.G. Heiskell.
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