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This engraving is a portrait of Gen. Andrew Jackson in military uniform astride a horse. He holds his hat in his proper right hand. The image is not entirely unknown, as the Library of Congress has the same portrait. The video included here shows all…

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…

This previously unknown pamphlet is already being used by readers at AAS: a literary scholar working on disability studies and a poet looking for eccentrics and examples of the way they used language.Elegiac poems for President Andrew Jackson were…

Was the creator of this Jackson portrait an African American free man of color or not? What we do know: this lithograph was created by Jules Lion. Born in Paris, in the mid-1830s Jules Lion immigrated to New Orleans, where the 1837 city directory…