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This lithographed portrait depicts Andrew Jackson sitting at a desk, holding a sword. Another reworked black & white version of this lithograph was published by D.W. Kellogg & Co. of Hartford, Ct. in 1847. Both the colored and black & white versions…

Here is a publishing mystery. A bound set of page proofs of Parton's Life of Gen. Jackson came to AAS as part of the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection. The volume has a handwritten note tipped in declaring it to be one of only two copies…

The title page ofBiographical Sketch of the Life of Andrew Jacksonis dated 1828, which squares with the description in the text of Jackson and "the important relation in which he now stands to the American people, as a candidate for the splendid…

Like Jackson himself, Davy Crockett (1786-1836) came to be known as a larger-than-life Tennessee frontiersman. However, Crockett was no supporter of Jackson. He vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the…

Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828) married Andrew Jackson in 1791 or 1794. The ambiguity in dates depends on which marriage you count. When they first married, the couple had assumed Rachel's first husband had secured a divorce. Turns out he had…

Pushmataha (1764/65?–1824) was a Choctaw warrior who fought against Creeks and Seminoles with Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. He later negotiated treaties with GeneralJackson, but Pushmataha died while in Washington,D.C.,to protest the…

A portrait of “General Andrew Jackson” opposite the narration of Jackson’s appointment to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796—his first political office. He was elected to the House of Representatives that year…