On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to ...

As president, Jackson took things personally, ousting all Cabinet members because their wives refused to socialize with his secretary of war’s young second wife, who was accused, as Jackson’s ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had ... their removal was essential to Jackson's plan. Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message, was delivered on December 6, 1830 to U.S ...

and as president he wrestled with many. Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts to pass legislation which Jackson believed favored the elite, including a bill to renew the ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...

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

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.

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

"General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife, Rachel, is far longer and more emotional, a 135-word defense of her honor ...

president and CEO of the Andrew Jackson Foundation, said in a statement. During the late 18th and early 19th century, Jackson trafficked people between his home in Nashville and other parts of the ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time ...