Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

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 ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice ...

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 ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... Their love story defies the boisterous portrayal of the nation's seventh president that dominates the public imagination, an image that is ...