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

During his time in Tennessee, Sam Houston fought his one and only duel. The expert coaching of Andrew Jackson, who had killed a man a generation before in a similar setting, enabled him to walk ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... He shot a man to death during a duel and ended up with a bullet permanently lodged in his own chest; his victory against the British ...

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

As a young man, attorney Andrew Jackson, future president of the United States, earned a reputation as a formidable duelist. His honor suffered, however, after a duel against Charles Dickinson in ...

There are certain resemblances. Jackson’s demeanor, like Trump’s, appalled his predecessors. He was from the Tennessee frontier, killed a man in a duel, and abandoned Congress to become an ...

His name was Andrew Jackson. Earlier this year ... populist direction; who fought duels and killed a man at cold close range; who married a woman who was still legally married to another man ...