If that weren’t enough, he was a war criminal who suspended habeas corpus and executed prisoners for minor infractions during his time as a general in the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson deserves a ...

His name is Andrew Jackson, and the year is 1824 ... and as a murderer who had executed several of his own soldiers for minor infractions. Astonishingly, all these accusations were true, and ...

Andrew Jackson was a populist ... newly-popular hip-hop star Alexander Hamilton off the ten-dollar bill. This minor aesthetic gesture briefly drew more popular attention than actual monetary ...

During the War of 1812, roughly two decades before he became president, Gen. Andrew Jackson wrote home to his wife, Rachel, from the battlefield. Though he was tired and banged up, Jackson was ...

Donald Trump regards it as a mirror. On Wednesday, he traveled to Tennessee to commemorate the 250th birthday of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, and toured Jackson’s plantation ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to sycophants. The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has ...

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 ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

Brown is the author of The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson. He teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania Charges of stolen presidential elections are rare in ...