Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812, Jackson became a national war hero after a stunning ...

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf out of his book.

Shortly before Donald Trump’s return to the White House, staffers made sure to rehang an Andrew Jackson portrait that Joe Biden had removed. Trump described America’s seventh president as “a ...