NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is ...

“What a wonderful man is Andrew Jackson!... the iron man of his age—the incarnation of American courage.” Jackson’s “iron will” was the way that people of the period saw what we know today was the ...

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 ...

It would also have been deemed irresponsible to refund the money to the states or the people with instructions on how it ... “What a wonderful man is Andrew Jackson!... the iron man of his age—the ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one of ...

A US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on ... Railroad to lead enslaved people north to freedom. Part of it is to demote Jackson, the President who kept ...