One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and received very little schooling as a child. His older brother Hugh died ... during the American Revolution in 1779. Andrew, then ...

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 ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...