Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee. At the time of his presidency, from 1829 to 1837, Jackson enslaved 95 ...

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United States in 1829, he owned 95 enslaved people and a sprawling plantation in Nashville named “The Hermitage.” ...

Dr. Mark Cheathem, Cumberland University Professor of History, will be a featured guest Jan. 20 in “A Historic Inauguration: Andrew Jackson’s 1829 Campaign & Inauguration,” a special ...

Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana ... and a reputation that would help make him president in 1829. The Battle of New Orleans was Britain’s last attempt ...

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 ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...