We traveled west from the Gulf Coast ... as part of “Jacksonland,” after Andrew Jackson. Jackson was, of course, the prime mover who opened much of the South to white settlement; he played ...

Just a month later, he would have to confront Andrew Jackson ... west." Getty Images By 1833, Ross and Ridge had come to opposing views on what was best for the Cherokees. Ultimately, neither man ...

“Removing Jackson ... west of the Appalachians. He was the first president who wasn’t from Virginia or an Adams from Massachusetts. He was the first president to be an entirely self-made man ...

Wouldn't he have viewed Trump, a man who has never experienced physical hardship and who spent his whole life making real estate deals, as soft? Probably. Andrew Jackson was a roughneck ...

Such a man was Andrew Jackson. Jackson’s Strategy If you’re going to fight a seasoned murderer on his own turf, you might as well have a plan, right? Jackson knew he was pretty much boned from ...

Andrew Jackson was not a humble man. Yet if, on his 250th birthday, he can remind us of the need for humility, he will have done his country another good service. H.W. Brands is the author of ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has returned ... slaves and ordered the Southeastern Indians west on the Trail of Tears. Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and ... The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but ...

A discovery on less than one acre in a remote portion of the vast 1,120-acre home of Andrew Jackson is about to change ... The money given by the man, who has chosen to be anonymous but was ...

It's a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ordered the Southeastern Indians west on the Trail of Tears. Inconveniently, Jackson ...