Andrew Jackson was born 250 years ago this March 15. For much of that quarter-millennium, ... If Jackson had not owned slaves — if he had been a failure as a planter, ...

Donald Trump picked an Andrew Jackson portrait for Oval Office. ... He married up, however, into Nashville’s slave-owning planter class. But he was less interested in helping Native Americans.

Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in Tennessee, ... Yet he was a remorseless slaveholder who chased gentleman-planter status.

In Defense of Andrew Jackson, Bradley J. Birzer, Regnery History, 209 pages I grew up with an affinity for our seventh president. It came naturally—partly from patriotic interest in U.S. history ...

This Jackson was a planter who built his wealth and influence with the stolen labor of more than 200 enslaved Africans. ... If Donald Trump channels any vision of Andrew Jackson, ...

Jackson, now president, then turned to his longtime priority: the removal of all Native peoples from the South to make room for white planters and enslaved Blacks. (He quietly made nice with the ...

Jackson did predict that this wasn’t over—that, in the future, the radicalized planters of South Carolina would seize on “the negro, or slavery question” to advance their anti-union interests.

In an interview with SiriusXM’s Salena Zito that aired Monday, President Donald Trump repeatedly made reference to Andrew Jackson as a sort of North Star for his own presidency. He also ...

It was dusk on Monday, Sept. 3, 1827, when the party from South Carolina drew up at the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s plantation near Nashville. One of the travelers, a young woman named Julia Ann ...

We must all remember Jackson's words that in the planter, the farmer, the mechanic and the laborer we will find muscle and bone of our country. So true." Before his speech, Trump toured Jackson's ...