The first $10 Federal Reserve Note featured Andrew Jackson. National Museum of American History - Image by Godot13. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons When it comes to the the ...

Sometimes, popular history has a way of turning the dead into heroes or villains. In the case of Andrew Jackson, the current narrative leans towards the latter. And yet, for nearly a century ...

No one is more deserving of the distinction than Harriet Tubman. Yet why was Andrew Jackson depicted our $20? How did average Americans perceive him? Why was Jackson relevant? New York Mayor ...

So when he taught us about the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson’s campaigns to force at least 46,000 Cherokees, Choctaws, Muscogee-Creeks, Chickasaws and Seminoles off ...

Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the U.S. $20 bill, with a new design to be unveiled in 2020. Photograph by MPI, Getty Images After the Battle of New ...

Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in Tennessee, the lead slugs in his body at long last having their intended effect. It was the spring of 1845 and “Old Hickory”—hero of the War ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812, Jackson became a national war hero after a stunning ...