The sun rarely shined on Andrew Jackson's childhood. At 14, Andrew and his brother, Robert, were captured, starved, and abused by the British during the Revolutionary War. After finally being ...

The National Park Service puts it this way in a brief informational biography of Lyncoya: “The adoption of the young battlefield survivor complicates our understanding of Andrew Jackson’s ...

Yet why was Andrew Jackson depicted our $20 ... In 1833, attorney Philo Goodwin published a biography of Jackson saying, "no man's character" has been more misunderstood. "Many, on becoming ...

In 1860, author James Parton published a three-volume “Life of Andrew Jackson.” Thoroughly researched and vividly written, Parton’s book became the standard biography for his generation.

THERE'S a book that may make you ashamed we've put Old Hickory's face on the $20 bill. Robert V. Remini, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of a National Book ...

In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.

“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which opened this month on Broadway, works beyond the level of biography. The show, which improbably traces Jackson’s life, rise and legacy with a blend of ...