A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ...

Library of Congress When the Tennessee militia intervened in a civil war among the Creeks in 1813, the Cherokees joined in—on the side of the militiamen—and helped Andrew Jackson win the ...

This is about the recovery of Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, CSA, from the American Civil War. The battle/skirmish happened in Munford, Alabama on April 23, 1865, and his body was recovered on ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... of Abominations,” presaging its later actions that led to the Civil War. Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act; thousands of Cherokees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front ... 16th president led a weary nation through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Bearing witness to those failings was Benjamin Brown French, a New Hampshire lawyer and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War ... President Andrew Jackson that French ...