President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017 ...

In audio posted on Monday, President Trump said Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was "really angry" about what was happening with the Civil War. There's one major ...

Historian Daniel Feller revisited Andrew Jackson's bank war of the 1830s, a political struggle to challenge and even cripple the powerful Bank of the United States, the young country's only ...

Jackson, by contrast, was born to Irish immigrants near Lancaster, South Carolina, on March 15, 1767, and was orphaned by 14, a year after he volunteered to fight the British in the Revolutionary War.

Donald Trump is apparently a fan of Andrew Jackson, the current face on the $20 bill. Here's a look at the life and career of the seventh president.

President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017 ...

In an interview that aired Monday, President Trump spoke highly of Andrew Jackson, and wondered why more people don't ask why the Civil War happened, asserting Jackson could have prevented it.

Trump then made some, let’s say, peculiar comments about how Jackson “really angry… with regard to the Civil War,” despite the alternative fact that the Civil War didn’t start until 1861 ...

Description. Howard Kitell discussed Andrew Jackson's role in the War of 1812 and its significance in his rise as a national political figure. Bell Ringer Assignment ...

A statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House. In “A Brutal Reckoning,” Peter Cozzens writes that Jackson's role in the Creek War played an important part in his subsequent history.

Andrew Jackson died 16 years before the war started in 1861, but how did his legacy play into the fact that conflict started? Jackson lived on, in a way, into the Civil War. He was famous for ...

President Donald Trump speaks on the Oval Office telephone in January, as a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson hangs in the background. In an interview published Monday, Trump wondered aloud ...