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

The return of the portrait of the seventh president is a reminder of certain resemblances between the two. Jackson's demeanor ...

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 ...

Officials believe they have found a slave cemetery at the home of America’s seventh president Andrew Jackson. The discovery provides a historical link to the people who were enslaved by Jackson ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.

Although Jackson won more electoral and popular votes than any of his opponents in 1824, his lack of a majority gave the House of Representatives the power to choose a president. Frustrated by ...

In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing that the American public preferred him because he stood for the “common man.” Challenges Jackson never shied away from a challenge, and as ...

President Andrew Jackson wrote to an intelligence officer ... but as historian Jon Meacham notes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the seventh president, Jackson was the first to propose ...