Harriet Tubman is in; President Andrew Jackson is out. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew's decision to replace Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor ...

NO FAN OF PAPER MONEY In Jackson’s day there was no single national currency, said historian Daniel Feller, director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee.

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 ...

Professor Robert Remini discussed his book, [Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars], published by Viking Press. The book is about the former president and his relationship with Native Americans ...

“We have been putting dead white statesmen on our coins for so long that it’s been unquestioned for some time now,” says a Jackson scholar.

History Dept. Keep Andrew Jackson on the $20 Critics of the current $20 bill forget the president who made American democracy democratic.

President Jackson left a complicated legacy worth remembering, even if he does get booted off the $20.

On this day in 1830, 193 years ago, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. The Act established a process whereby the president could grant land west of the Mississippi River to ...

We’re on a mission to uncover the lost camps of Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett from the 1813 Creek Indian Wars using metal detectors and advanced mapping technology. From musket balls to ...

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.

In 2020, the Jackson City Council voted to remove the Andrew Jackson statue in a 5-1 vote. Now, the statue is finally headed elsewhere.

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 ...