Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife ...

Inside the home, Hamilton wrote letters hashing out political positions developed in the Federalist Papers, which provided a ...

Completed in 1846, it is considered the oldest standing example of Italianate architecture in the United States. Although the house and its grounds were showcased in Andrew Jackson Downing’s ...

“In the United States, the style first arrived through Andrew Jackson Downing’s book The Architecture of Country Houses in 1850, and it was further disseminated through pattern books,” Chambers says.

This story has been updated to reflect President Trump’s speculation that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil War. “Stop the Runaway,” Andrew Jackson urged in an ad placed in the ...

Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.

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 ...

The Gothic-inspired cottage dates to 1865 when villas and cottages with picturesque style were made popular by the work of a group of architects promoting their vision of the American home, including ...

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 ...

Find out why these wraparound porches are a classic part of American architecture. Wraparound porches are a highly ...