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

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 ...

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 ...

Explore the incredible story of how President Andrew Jackson survived a slash to the head.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ron DeSantis is not the first Florida governor to run for the highest office in the land. Andrew Jackson, who was appointed governor of the Florida Territories, was the first to run, and after a ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins was born and raised 1,000 miles from the ocean — yet he forever changed war fought from the sea. He designed and manufactured the iconic World War II amphibious landing ...