Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks ...

We’re on a mission to uncover the lost camps of Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett from the 1813 Creek Indian Wars using metal detectors and advanced mapping technology. From musket balls to arrowheads ...

Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace. The Cherokee nation was one of the "Five ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone ... side by side at the Hermitage, Jackson's home in Nashville, Tennessee. Their love story defies the boisterous portrayal of the nation's seventh president that ...

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 ...