So numerous were the removals in the city of Washington that the business of the place seems paralyzed.” No, that isn’t an ...

Trump featured a portrait of famous populist president Andrew Jackson in a prominent place in the Oval Office when he first took office in January as it sat above a smaller portrait of the nation ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.

No one doubts that Andrew Jackson was imperfect. But also nobody doubts that he made a huge impact on an entire generation — not just his eight years in office. Leading up to there as a major ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

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 ...

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made ... insistence that any man should be able to hold elected (or appointed) office and by his forceful and effective use of the presidential veto and ...

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 ...