Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Andrew Jackson was exiting the U.S ...

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 ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 Laura Kiniry Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the ...

It took Jackson until his second term to control his administration and his party in Congress, and historians have overstated his political ascendancy in labeling his times "the Jacksonian era." ...

Andrew Jackson was a president who was quite visible ... In this bill introduced and supported by Republicans, the Revolutionary War-era Aitken Bible was made one of the first official state ...