The newest Presidential podcast episode is about violence: the tragedy of Andrew Jackson's personal life, his brutality against Native Americans, and the conflict of democracy.

He ordered the government to give the free men of color their promised land, but federal officials refused and dropped the ...

Although the ballot measure to remove the Andrew Jackson statues from in front of the Jackson County courthouses wasn't approved Tuesday, activists don't plan to give up until they are removed.

Such a man was Andrew Jackson. Jackson’s Strategy If you’re going to fight a seasoned murderer on his own turf, you might as well have a plan, right?

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Late last year, with the help of an anonymous donor who ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White ...

President Andrew Jackson was born 244 years ago this month. North and South Carolina have fought for a century over which state can claim Jackson as a native son. Both states have dueling statues ...

On what would be the president's 250th birthday, this Tennessee family remains dedicated to The Hermitage and sharing the story of the complex life and times of Jackson.

Spitting on Andrew Jackson's grave with Rebecca Nagle : Code Switch That's how Nagle begins her new book and how she frames the version of history she's telling. The book digs into the past and ...

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.

Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States in 1829 after running as an anti-establishment candidate who would fight corruption and the entrenched aristocracy.

Barbara Bair, Steve Inskeep and Jon Meacham examine the tragedy of Andrew Jackson's personal life, the brutality of his battles and his policies against Native Americans, and the conflict that ...