School employees "didn't just wait for a change. They delivered it," Superintendent Christopher Bernier said of people who worked to raise grades.

Join us as we search for the lost militia camps of Andrew Jackson, Davey Crockett, and Sam Houston during the Creek Indian Wars of 1813—a key campaign within the War of 1812. Using advanced mapping ...

Understanding today’s powerful presidency means going back to Jackson’s White House reign.

Andrew Jackson was not a humble man. Yet if, on his 250th birthday, he can remind us of the need for humility, he will have done his country another good service.

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 ...

A York County, South Carolina, developer plans for a hotel with private restaurant and speakeasy in the former Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Rock Hill.

Just a month later, he would have to confront Andrew Jackson directly. Jackson had been serving as a federal Indian commissioner when he launched his first effort to remove the Cherokees en masse.

A cabin for enslaved people at The Hermitage, the home of former President Andrew Jackson, is seen Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. A cemetery has been discovered on the property which ...

In an otherwise excellent column (“Trump’s Echo of 1829,” op-ed, Feb. 27) Karl Rove contends that President Andrew Jackson “presided over the ‘Tariff of Abominations.’” This requires ...

Andrew Jackson, who was appointed governor of the Florida Territories, was the first to run, and after a failed attempt in 1824, was elected and reelected in the next two contests.

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. Late last year, with the help of an anonymous donor who ...