This Day in History. On this day in 1830, 195 years ago, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act.

Explore the incredible story of how President Andrew Jackson survived a slash to the head. Abbott's 'death penalty' comment on jet ski crash prompts Houston civil rights nonprofit to respond ...

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which forced nearly 50,000 Native Americans to ...

Sometimes, popular history has a way of turning the dead into heroes or villains. In the case of Andrew Jackson, the current narrative leans towards the latter. And yet, for nearly a century ...

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 ...

Andrew Jackson deserves a museum chronicling his crimes and dedicated to his victims, not commemoration on American currency. Any evaluation of Jackson must begin with American Indian removal ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cherokees might even have realized that advantage had it not been for the militia leader they fought under: Andrew Jackson. As a boy in the 1770s, Jackson had listened to stories of Indian ...

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 ...

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 ...