"Andrew Jackson" from William Garrott Brown. Historian and essayist (1868-1913).
12 , 1803 , Thomas Jefferson Papers , Library of Congress , on line at American Memory web site ... also Peter J. Kastor , The Nation's Crucible : The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America ( New Haven : Yale Univ .
A psychologist might suggest that the general was thinking of a way to cheer his distraught wife by placing an infant in her care, or perhaps he sought a playmate for Andrew. No doubt, Old Hickory felt compassion for a boy who found ...
Margaret O'Neale Timberlake, a dark-haired, vivacious beauty, was the daughter of a popular Irish-immigrant innkeeper in Washington, well known to congressmen and other government officials. Her husband, John Timberlake, ...
Although Bray Hammond , Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War ( Princeton , 1957 ) , was written by a former member of the Federal Reserve Board who unquestionably knows a great deal about banking , I find ...
Keane was confident that Pakenham would be irresistible in the attack and invincible in finishing it, so the British waited. The man, the men, and the guns arrived on Christmas Day. Pakenham doubtless did not like what he saw when he ...
Andrew Jackson, a military hero, lost the presidency in 1824 to a wealthy aristocrat.
In 1829 Andrew Jackson arrived in Washington in a carriage. Eight years and two turbulent presidential terms later, he left on a train. Those years, among the most prosperous in...
Andrew Jackson is one of the most significant and controversial United States Presidents. This book follows Jackson's life and death through the lives of six women who influenced both his politics and his persona.
This powerful TIME special edition, Andrew Jackson: An American Populist, examines the seventh president of the United States, his willful and combative style and his enduring legacy, and why it is so resonant today.
The work is a straightforward history of Jackson's military career, begun by John Reid, Jackson's military aide throughout the War of 1812 and the ensuing Creek War.