As thousands of students prepare to celebrate their graduations this week, Andrew Jackson High School highlighted the ...

In Part 3 of our journey, we continue searching for Andrew Jackson’s 1813 military encampment deep in the Alabama woods. With each relic we find—from pewter musket balls to buttons and coins—we piece ...

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 ...

Editor's note: H.W. Brands is the author of “Andrew Jackson” and other works of American history. He is a professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin and is a two-time finalist for ...

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 ...

In this episode, we continue our deep-woods search for the lost camp of Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett from 1813. With metal detectors in hand, we uncover relics that may have belonged to the men ...

And we can’t resist noticing those. I think Donald Trump thinks he’s just like Andrew Jackson, and I can point out some rather startling ways – and really historically brazenly obvious ones ...

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 ...

Parrots can have foul temperaments. A long-viral internet rumor claimed that U.S. President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot got so rowdy and profane at Jackson's funeral that it had to be removed.

Where they were laid to rest is knowledge that had been lost to time. But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery: They believe they have found the slave cemetery at the ...

The Andrew Jackson Volunteers beat the Landrum Cardinals 78-60 in the 2024 2A girls’ basketball state championship game in Florence on Friday. It started off rocky for Andrew Jackson ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Nobody knew where they were ...