Jackson called Adams an elitist who wanted to increase government in order to benefit the so-called “aristocracy,” Americans of enormous wealth. In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... He was re-elected in 1832. When he was 24, Jackson married Rachel Donelson, a young divorcée. The marriage was not valid; Rachel Donelson ...

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 contemplative space," he said. Jackson was one of a ... people — enslaved and free — who built the young nation. Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson professor of history emeritus at Vanderbilt ...

Shortly before Donald Trump’s return to the White House, staffers made sure to rehang an Andrew Jackson portrait that Joe Biden had removed. Trump described America’s seventh president as “a ...