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 ...

Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson professor of history emeritus ... There were men, women and children between the ages of about 1 and 45. Artist Aaron Lee Benson used the North Star as inspiration ...

president and CEO of the Andrew Jackson Foundation, said in a statement. “Other potential sites were evaluated and eliminated, and state-of-the-art research and testing have affirmed our beliefs ...

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 ...

A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ago is set to be felled next week, President Trump announced Sunday.