Robert V. Remini, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of a National Book Award-winning three-volume biography of Andrew Jackson, tells the story of how the ...

President Andrew Jackson presented Congress on this day in 1836, with a treaty he negotiated with the Ioway, Sacs, Sioux, Fox, Otoe, and Omaha tribes of the Missouri Territory. The treaty, which ...

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 ...

The prominent placement of an Andrew Jackson portrait during an event meant to honor a group of Native Americans at the Oval Office on Monday has raised questions about the White House’s mess… ...

This bloody, forgotten conflict shaped the life of Andrew Jackson The Creek War has long been overlooked. In ‘A Brutal Reckoning,’ Peter Cozzens shows how it changed the course of American ...

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 ...

Join us as we search for the lost militia camps of Andrew Jackson, Davey Crockett, and Sam Houston during the Creek Indian Wars of 1813—a key campaign within the War of 1812. Using advanced mapping ...

Howard Zinn described Andrew Jackson as “the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history.” His most infamous move as president was to push through the 1830 Indian Removal Act.

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 Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South Peter Cozzens. Knopf, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-65945-7 ...

How does Bo Jackson County sound? Or we could honor Mary Jackson, NASA’s first Black female engineer. From Toriano Porter: ...