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 ...

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 ...

But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery ... were buried near a creek, about 1,000 feet northwest of the mansion. Finding the cemetery after all this time was exciting ...

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 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 ...