Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... and he felt like his career had kind of died," said Marsha Mullin, vice president of museum services and chief curator of the Hermitage.

A former Facebook executive says that for the company's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, one American president stands head ...

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made ... Not coincidentally, he was able to purge anyone who supported his hated vice president, John Calhoun. Britain and France both tried to keep the ...

In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing that the American public preferred him because he stood for the “common man.” Challenges Jackson never shied away from a challenge, and as ...

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 ...

Martin Van Buren allied himself with President Andrew Jackson, who in turn rewarded Van Buren with cabinet positions and the vice presidency. As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian ...