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 of the White men on US paper currency who had a troubling history with slavery.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf out of his book.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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. Where they were laid to rest is ...

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 three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... his victory against the British at New Orleans catapulted him to war hero status. Presidential Places is a weekly series on past ...

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem provided a brief overview of the early months of President Andrew Jackson's first term in 1829. This lesson explores the first 100 days of ...

A southern magnolia tree believed to have been planted by former President Andrew Jackson in the 1800s, according to the National Park Service, may be cut down.

The magnolia tree and its counterpart were named 'Witness Trees' in 2006, as both have been present during a number of major events in American history