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 ...

Five years before his death, Jackson continued to inspire commentary. An 1840 article on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Battle of New Orleans opined, “What a wonderful man is Andrew Jackson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brown is the author of The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew ... People of the west have been disregarded, and demagogues barter them as sheep in the shambles.” Jackson’s insistence ...

But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery ... The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but nearly all of their gravestones have ...