Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 ...

The inauguration of a new U.S. President is a day of pomp and ceremony, of solemn oaths and dignified celebrations. But ...

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 ...

The Andrew Jackson Foundation—owner and operator ... When he was inaugurated as president in 1829, Jackson owned 95 enslaved people, and by his death in 1845, he owned 150.

Antony-22 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United States in 1829, he owned 95 enslaved people and a sprawling ...

Researchers from the Andrew Jackson Foundation ... When inaugurated as president in 1829, Jackson owned 95 enslaved people. At the time of his death, in 1845, he owned 150. Jackson never freed ...

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 ...

Smithson died in 1829, and six years later, President Andrew Jackson announced the bequest to Congress. On July 1, 1836, Congress accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of ...